Mostra Nazionale di Pittura Contemporanea
Marsala
The Contemporary Painting Exhibition Body “City of Marsala” was created on behalf of the City Council in 1963, and has its headquarters since 1996 at the Convent of Carmine. The Museum owns a picture gallery of more than 750 works by artists of the '900. And it aims to promote the artistic and cultural activities of the city.
Museo "G. Whitaker"
Marsala
The “Giuseppe Whitaker” Museum is located in a building built in the nineteenth century and with a beautiful garden of eight hectares. It was created with the aim of maintaining and curating the historical and artistic heritage. The Museum preserves inside the “Statue of the Youth” of the classical era found during an excavation campaign; among other objects, we remember a couple of cloisonné enamel elephants coming from the Beijing imperial palace, paintings from the 1800s Sicilian, a late eighteenth-century Russian sleigh and porcelain collections.
Complesso Monumentale San Pietro
Marsala
The Monumental Complex San Pietro di Marsala is located at the Monastery of the Benedictine Sisters and was founded in 595 after Christ. At the end of the 13th century, the church dedicated to St. Peter was added to the monastery. To be emphasized for its beauty is the square tower that thanks to a lighting system is made clearly visible from every corner of the historic center. The property also has a conference room, a multipurpose room and some leisure facilities.
Castello di Marsala
Marsala
The castle of Marsala was built in the eastern corner of the city. Official documents demonstrate for a castle of Nosmanna origin (but without being able to exclude a fortress of Byzante). It was built in the twelfth century.
Torrione di Mozia
Marsala
The Tower of Mozia is part of a massive plant consisting largely of square blocks and large masses of raw bricks. This makes us think of the various shifts of matter that have been there over the decades. It is assumed that the great activity of moving materials dates back to the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The Tower is one of the most visited monuments in the area, since it is a great testimony to the fortifications of the Moziesi.
Mozia - zona archeologica fenicio-punica
Marsala
Mozia is a fortress town located a few kilometers from Cape Lilibeo. Following the destruction that occurred in 397 BC by the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysius I, the city remained uninhabited. At present, the city has several very elegant and elegant buildings.
Torre Marcubbo
Marsala
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
Trapani
(22 Km)
The interior has three aisles and it preserves the painting of the Crucifixion, painted by Van Dyck, a San Giorgio, by Andrea Carreca, the Eternal Father by La Bruna and a Dead Christ, created by Tartaglia with local stone.
Chiesa del Purgatorio
Trapani
(22 Km)
The Church was built in the late seventeenth century with a design by Pietro Castro. The current facade dates back to eighteenth-century makeover, designed by Biagio Amico.
Museo del Sale
Trapani
(22 Km)
Located in Nubia (City of Paceco), the museum is housed in the premises of the mill the saline Culcasi within the wildlife reserve of the Saline of Trapani and Paceco.
Vecchio Mercato del Pesce
Trapani
(22 Km)
The Old Fish Market in Trapani is located in the narrowest part of the peninsula. A unique place where among the vendors who put fish at auction, there are also sailors with their huge hands and tanned skin sitting repairing fishing nets. The “abaniata” is used, the act of publicizing and making known the type of goods. It takes on a chanting and almost musical rhythm that makes the market tour even more fascinating.
Castello di Mare
Trapani
(21 Km)
The Castello di Mare is located in the eastern part of the port of Trapani. It is an ancient medieval fortress and is 32 meters high. It has four overlapping floors, an octagonal tower, two chapels and a courtyard. It is not a real castle because over the years it has been used for various activities. The Italian Environment Fund named it as “Place of the Heart of Italians” in 2009.
Castello di Venere
Erice
(25 Km)
The Castle of Venus, or Norman, in Erice, sits on top of the mountain, once home to the beautiful jeròdulai priestesses who practiced the art of love. It is worth visiting!
Selinunte
Castelvetrano
(38 Km)
The mytical Selinunte
Cave di Cusa
Campobello di Mazara
(40 Km)
THE QUARRIES FROM WHERE THE BOULDERS WERE EXTRACTED TO BUILD THE TEMPLES OF SELINUNTE
Chiesa di San Giuliano
Erice
(21 Km)
The Church of St. Julian is very old, it was founded in 1080, by the will of Ruggero II. In the inside you can admire a fine statue of St. John the Baptist by Gagini.
Chiesa Matrice
Erice
(23 Km)
The Mother Church of Erice is a splendid example of Italian religious architecture.It was built in 1314, and its interior contains beautiful works of sacred art. Worth a visit
Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore
Erice
(25 Km)
Old church that houses in its interior a library with books and manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth century; there is also the Archaeological Museum which houses beautiful objects of Roman and Greek times.
Museo Civico
Castelvetrano
(31 Km)
The Civic Museum was set up, in 1997, inside the Errante House located in the historic center of Castelvetrano. Among the works on display we find the “Ephebo of Selinunte”, a Greek original from the 5th century BC with a bronze composition. In addition to a collection of ceramics and a large number of coins, the Museum also houses an interesting statue depicting the Virgin and Child from the workshop of Francesco Laurana.
Torre Nubia
Paceco
(19 Km)
The Nubia tower was erected at the beginning of the 16th century and restored in 1585 by the architect Camillo Camilliani. The building was used as a defensive fortification by the Spanish government. From the tower you can see the three Egadi islands.
Torre Torrazzo
San Vito Lo Capo
(45 Km)
The Torrazzo Tower was built between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, for reasons of defence from enemies. It has a circular structure with large stones. The Torrazzo Tower is one of the oldest towers in San Vito Lo Capo and it is for this reason that it is also called “old tower”.
Chiesa Fortezza
San Vito Lo Capo
(45 Km)
The fortress church is located in the small town called San Vito lo Capo. The structure was built in the eighteenth century, over the years this has undergone many renovations. The church is also easily accessible by car. This is located in a beautiful square and is open to the public.
Torre Uzzo
San Vito Lo Capo
(43 Km)
The Uzzo Towers were built in 1583 by the Florentine architect Camillo Camilliani and later were the subject of numerous restorations. All towers are built with a square base structure.
Torre di Ligny
Trapani
(22 Km)
The tower was built in 1670, for the defense of the city. It is built in the rocks of the city, for military reasons. It was composed of four turrets, which also served as headlights. Today the tower is used as a Museum and houses archaeological finds of the territory inside. It is a monument that tells a great part of the history and culture of the territory of Trapani.
Bastione Sant' Anna
Trapani
(41 Km)
Erected to defend the city from the continuous raids of Turkish pirates, it was wanted by Carlo V. Designed by the engineer Ferramolino from Bergamo who also protected the city from the use of the new tools of war: firearms. Subsequently, the city walls were strengthened thanks to renovation works for reasons of exposure to the strong winds
Castello di Terra
Trapani
(22 Km)
Before the construction of this castle, there were the remains of a Carthaginian fortification built by Amilcare. The castle was built in the twelfth century with an almost regular quadrilateral with half cylindrical curtain towers and rectangular towers at the corners. In the 1970s, in order to build its offices, the police took down the castle, but it regained its splendor thanks to subsequent restorations, the last one in 1992.
Bastione Impossibile
Trapani
(21 Km)
The Impossible Bastion is an important monument in the province of Trapani. It dates back to the first half of the 16th century and was erected to strengthen the city walls of Trapani. It is located in the southeastern corner of the ancient city walls, it was so called (Impossible) because of the muddy terrain on which it seemed impossible to build it.
La Tonnara
Scopello
(40 Km)
The tuna Scopello is one of the most important historical monuments of Sicily, probably the only intact evidence of tuna fishing in the Mediterranean sea. The building is privately owned
Mostra di Cimeli del Risorgimento
Salemi
(27 Km)
The Museum Exhibition of Relics of the Risorgimento was built in 1960 and since 1999 is located in the rooms of the former Jesuit College. In the museum they are exhibited in materials such as: weapons, photographs and original documents that testify to the participation of Salemi in the revolution of 1848 and in the enterprise of the Thousand of 1860.
Museo Regionale "Conte Agostino Pepoli"
Trapani
(22 Km)
The Regional Museum “Count Agostino Pepoli” is located in the former building of the Convent of the Carmelite Fathers. The Museum, inside, is divided into three fractions: marble and tombstones, paintings and industrial arts. Among the different objects, he owns paintings, sculptures, cribs, sacred parameters, goldsmiths, period clothes, majolica, memorabilia. All of these items acquire greater importance as the original set-up.
Museo Civico
Mazara del Vallo
(21 Km)
The Civic Museum was founded in 1921 and is one of the oldest institutes in the area. Its headquarters are located in the former Jesuit College. The museum houses artifacts from the Upper Palaeolithic, medieval sculptures and paintings dating back to the 17th century. Of particular interest and beauty are the decorated ceramics that date back to the Arab period, since the town was occupied by the Arabs in ancient times.
Museo Diocesano
Mazara del Vallo
(21 Km)
The Diocesan Museum is housed in the Palace of the Episcopal Seminary of Mazara del Vallo, built during the 18th century. The museum site welcomes sacred materials and objects from the Treasure of the City Cathedral. There are numerous silver and vestments dating from the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. The cross, coming from the church of Salemi in 1386, represents the oldest piece.
Museo Preistorico
Paceco
(19 Km)
The Prehistoric Museum, has been located since 1980 within the rooms of the Municipal Library. The museum exhibits different materials that belong to the period from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. Very interesting are the fragments of prehistoric animals from the Stone Age.
Castello dei conti di Modica
Alcamo
(45 Km)
The Castle of the Counts of Modica is located in Alcamo, it was built in 1350 by the brothers Henry I and Federico III Chiaramonte. The structure consists of four towers, two of which have a rectangular shape, while the other two have a cylindrical shape. The courtyard of the building has a rectangular shape. Over time, the City Council decided to use the castle as an ethnographic museum.
Centro Ettore Majorana
Erice
(25 Km)
The Ettore Majorana Centre, founded in 1963, is dedicated to scientific organization, which served as the basis for the Americans and Russians during the Cold War.
Castello della Signora o Casale ruderi
Salaparuta
(44 Km)
The Castle of the Lady or Farmhouse was built by the Arabs in ancient times. Over the years it has had various denominations, such as “Sala della Donna” because the settlers moved to a neighboring farmhouse. In 1400 instead, “Castle of Sala Paruta” and later “Castello di Salaparuta”. Unfortunately, in 1968, a strong earthquake destroyed the whole country. That's why today only the ruins are left.
Museo Malacologico
Erice
(24 Km)
At the Malacological Museum, in the province of Trapani, there are numerous windows of rich shells famous both for being rare and beautiful. In the variety of shells you can admire marine fossils and crustaceans. Inside the Museum, you can also visit the library that builds a heritage of the same as it is rich in rare marine equipment.
Museo del Lavoro Contadino
Campobello di Mazara
(32 Km)