GUIDE OF TRAPANI

TRAPANI: information

Trapani (Tràpani in Sicilian) is an Italian town of 69,293 inhabitants capital of the province in Sicily. Trapani, known as the City of Salt and Sail, has developed a flowered economic activity bound to the extraction and trade of salt, his natural position, projected on the Mediterranean, and its port, old commercial outlet for Eryx (modern Erice), located on the mountain overlooking Trapani. The economy today is based on the service sector, the Fisheries (formerly the tuna red, with the slaughter), on the extraction and export of marble, on activities related to trade and tourism. The urban area also includes the populous village Casa Santa, but belonging to the town of Erice. Therefore the entire urban citizen collects nearly 100 thousand inhabitants.

TRAPANI: to visit

Churches and palaces ... the things to do in Trapani no shortage! The churches in the city are many. At the eastern end of the city center, in via Pepoli, is the largest complex of the Annunciation, which is the main monument. Behind the main altar is the Chapel of Our Lady which is accessed through a beautiful arch Renaissance, closed by a bronze grill of 1591. Nearby is also the former convent that now houses the main city museum, "Museum Pepoli". In the historic center follows a series of churches of considerable interest: the church of St. Francis of Assisi, the Capuchin church, the church of San Pietro, and the Purgatory, located in the square. Very beautiful cathedral, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele, dedicated to St. Lawrence and built in the seventeenth century on a previous building fourteenth. One of the most attractive of the city is via Garibaldi lined with palaces and eighteenth-century churches, including emerging Palazzo Riccio Moran, crowned with statues, Palazzo Milo and Badia Nuova (S. Maria del Soccorso) one of the oldest churches in the city. The building that stands dramatically the way it Senatorial Palace (or Cavarretta), whose facade is two orders of columns and statues and is crowned by two big clocks. Next door is the clock tower of the XIII century. Also worth visiting is the way Freedom, where is the church of the Carmine, in Renaissance style founded by Carmelites, Fardella Palace and Palazzo Sanseverino. Major roads, places for long walks, are Via GB Fardella, which runs almost the entire city, eCorso Vittorio Emanuele. Especially in the evening, the streets are crowded with people who spend hours in the different local. You can also visit the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology Marina, located in the Tower of Ligny and the Natural Reserve of Saline that are followed in the coastal stretch between Trapani and Marsala in truly amazing where peace and tranquility reign.

TRAPANI: curiosities

The first is the poet Christian Trapani Elpide (sixth century), buried in Rome at the Arcades Vatican. The observatory Ximeniano of Florence was founded in the eighteenth century by a trapanese illustrious scientist Leonardo Ximenes. Patriot and fighter every time you call the History: the illustrious son of Henry Trapani Fardella of Torrearsa, revolutionary in 1848, fighting in the Crimea and ... general in the army of Lincoln in the Civil War! He was also mayor of his hometown in Italy in Unita. The sumptuous Sanctuary of the Madonna of Trapani holds the precious fourteenth-century sculptor Nino Pisano. The Sanctuary, although the original three hundred, it was remade in forms roccocò from Trapani Giovanni Biagio d'Amico. The park of Villa Margherita, in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, in the center of the modern city, boasts of amazing Ficus magnolioides. The Palazzo della Giudecca, built in the sixteenth century Plateresque in the ghetto, is one of the largest Jewish testimonies in Sicily. The Jews in Europe were divided into Sephardic and Ashkenazi, the first allocated in Spain, the second in the east and central Europe. With the reconquista (1492) and the unification of Spain by Reyes Catolicos, Isabella of Castile and Fernando of Aragon, the Jews and the Arabs were expelled and bring these unique mixture of Semitic culture and Spanish.