Full Day Shore Excursion in Segesta, Erice, Trapani and Saline from Palermo

Itinerary
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Stop At: Ape Tour, Cinisi, Sicily Italy

Meeting with driver at your hotel, pick up and departure to destination

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Tempio di Segesta, Contrada Barbaro SNC, 91013 Calatafimi-Segesta, Sicily Italy

The temple, sometimes called the "Great Temple", was built during the last thirty years of the fifth century BC, [1] on the top of a hill west of the city, outside its walls. It is a large hexastyle peripteral temple (ie with six columns on the shorter side, not grooved). On the long side it has instead fourteen columns (in total 36 then, 10 meters high). The current state of preservation presents the entire colonnade of the complete peristasis of the entire entablature. Despite the constructive elements and the proportions of the construction clearly referring to the classical period of Greek architecture, the temple presents peculiar aspects on which historiography does not express unanimous opinions.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Castello di Venere, Largo Castello, 91016, Erice, Sicily Italy

Erice Walking tour of the beautiful medieval town located on the top of the homonymous mountain at 760 meters high,

we will visit the temple dedicated to Venus, the castle, the towers and the beautiful cathedral. The town, surrounded by cyclopean walls, is characterized by stone paths and adorned with trees, plants and flowers, which give the center a magical and enchanted atmosphere. The wide and spectacular view from Erice is breathtaking: you can see Trapani with its characteristic sickle shape and the Mount Cofano reserve with Custonaci at its feet. You can also taste the typical almond sweets famous all over the world.


Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Museo del Sale, Via Chiusa 12A Località Nubia, 91027 Paceco, Sicily Italy

Of Phoenician origin, the Arab geographer al-Idrīsī documents the presence of salt pans already in the period of Norman domination in Sicily. Under the reign of Frederick of Swabia, the state monopoly on salt production was established, which continued even during the Angevin domination. The Aragonese later ratified the return to private property, but it was under the Spanish crown that the salt production activity reached its peak, transforming the port of Trapani into the most important European trade center for the precious element. The salt pans from Trapani reached the islands of the Stagnone.

In the photo above the Salt Museum of Nubia, in the photo below the Infersa mill.

From 1861 with the Unification of Italy these salt pans were not nationalized, and they were the only ones to overcome the monopoly of the salt by the State, exporting it to different countries. After the First World War with the competition of the industrialized salt pans of Cagliari began the decline of the Trapani salt pans, accentuated by the outbreak of the Second World War and by foreign competition with rock salt. Many of the salt pans were abandoned or abandoned.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Riserva Naturale Saline Di Trapani E Paceco, Garibaldi 138, 91011, Trapani, Sicily Italy

Beautiful place, you can visit the salt Museum inside an old wind mill

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Corso Vittorio Emanuele di Trapani, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 91100, Trapani, Sicily Italy

Historical center of Trapani. You can visit many monuments and free time for shopping

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Borgo Storico Erice, Via Salerno, 91016, Erice, Sicily Italy

Beautiful medieval village

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Chiesa del Purgatorio, Via San Francesco d'Assisi, 91100, Trapani, Sicily Italy

Trapani is a city in western Sicily with a crescent-shaped coast. In the western tip, with a view of the Egadi Islands, is the 17th century Torre di Ligny watchtower, which houses the Museum of Prehistory and Marine Archeology. North of the port, the Church of Purgatory preserves wooden sculptures that parade through the city during the Procession of the Mysteries at Easter.

Duration: 30 minutes