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The area is now a WWF nature E Museo degli Arazzi
reserve, a unique habitat for Fiamminghi
migratory birds. The landscape, Chiesa Madre, Via G Garaffa 57.
with its salt marshes and Tel 0923-711 327. Open 9am–1pm,
windmills (three of which 4–6pm. Closed Mon. &
can be visited), is striking. A
museum illustrates the practice E Museo Archeologico
of salt extraction. Regionale Baglio Anselmi
Lungomare Boéo. Tel 0923-952 535.
Open 9am–7pm Tue–Sat, 9am–1pm
a Marsala Mon, 3–7:30pm Sun & hols.
This archaeological museum
Road map A3. * 83,000. @ 124 km
(77 miles) from Marsala and 31 km features prehistoric and ancient
(19 miles) from Trapani. n 0923-714 finds from local digs, including
097. ( Tue. _ Maundy Thursday the mosaics from the Roman
procession. ruins at Capo Boeo and a
3rd-century BC Punic shipwreck.
Bell tower of the Santuario dell’Annunziata Sicily’s largest wine-producing
in Trapani centre was founded by the
colonists from Mozia who s Mozia
with the Madonna and Child survived the destruction of the Road map A2–3. g from Trapani
by Nino Pisano, one of the most island by Dionysius of Syracuse and Marsala (dawn to sunset).
important Gothic sculptures in 397 BC. It then became a n STR Trapani (0923-565 412/872
in Sicily. major Carthaginian city, but 652). Museum: Tel 0923-712 598.
in the first Punic War it was Open Apr–Oct: 9:30am–6:30pm;
R Chiesa del Purgatorio conquered by the Romans, Nov–Mar: 9am–3pm. &
Via San Francesco d’Assisi. Tel 0923- who made it their main ∑ fondazionewhitaker.it
23261 (Curia Vescovile). Open 10am– Mediterranean naval base. The
noon Tue, 10am–noon & 5–7pm Fri city plan is basically Roman, The Phoenician city of Mozia
(10am–noon, 4–7pm daily in Lent; other quarters being added was built on the
9am–midnight Jul & Aug). by the Arabs, who conquered island of San
This church is well known the city in 830 and made it a Pantaleo, just
because it houses unusual flourishing trade centre. off Sicily. The
18th-century wooden statues Piazza della Repubblica, ancient site
with precious silver decoration bounded by Palazzo Senatorio is linked
representing the Stations of the and the Cathedral, dedicated to with Joseph
Cross (Misteri). At 2pm on Good St Thomas of Canterbury, is the Whitaker, the
Friday, they are carried in a heart of the town. The Cathedral son of an
24-hour procession, a ritual was founded by the Normans English wine
dating from the 1700s. and completed in the 1950s. merchant who Punic head,
It boasts sculptures by the made his fortune Mozia museum
E Museo di Preistoria Gaginis and their school. Behind from Marsala wine.
Torre di Ligny. Tel 0923-547 275. the apse is the Museo degli He became owner of the island
Open summer: 10am–12:30pm, Arazzi Fiamminghi, with eight in the early 1900s, began arch aeo-
5–7:30pm. & 8 16th-century Flemish tapestries logical digs in 1913, and founded
At the tip of the peninsula, the depicting Titus’s war against the a museum that houses the
Torre di Ligny (1671) affords a Hebrews. They were donated “young man from Mozia” statues.
fine view of the city and its port. by Philip II of Spain to the Along with those in Carthage,
The tower is now used as an Archbishop of Messina and later the dry docks here are the most
archaeological museum, with taken to Marsala Cathedral. ancient in the Mediterranean.
objects from the Punic Wars
and from the shipwrecks that
occurred on the ancient trade
routes on display are amphoras
used to carry wine, dates and
garum – a prized fish sauce.
E Museo del Sale
Via delle Saline, Contrada Nubia,
Paceco. Tel 0923-867 061.
Open 9:30am–7pm daily. WWF
Reserve: Tel 0923-867 700.
From Trapani to Marsala the
coast is lined with salt marshes. Ruins of the northern gate of the city of Mozia, destroyed in 397 BC

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