Castles and Historical Buildings

This fountain has fourteenth-century origins (1342) and was built by the will of the Chiaramonte family in order to distribute water in the urban centre of Trapani, thanks to the aqueduct that they ha...

The Lazzaretto was born as a place of isolation for those infected with infectious diseases who had landed at the port of Trapani. For this reason, it was built on the small island of Sant'Antonio, wh...

With a history that probably dates back to the First Punic War, the Colombaia Castle is a fascinating fortress surrounded by the sea, which stands on a small island at the eastern end of the port, par...

Trapani became for want of the emperor Carlo V Urbs invictissima, thanks to the strengthening of its defensive system that, still today, is visible and enriches of historical and monumental fascinatio...

This palace (1927) is a representative Art Nouveau building, designed by the architect Francesco La Grassa. It is an example of the early twentieth century refined style with its typical floral decora...

This symbolic city palace, testimony of the expansion and urban mutation of the city at the end of the nineteenth century, beginning of the twentieth, is now the seat of the Municipality.  The pala...

The palace has fifteenth-century origins and is also called Cavarretta from the hierosolimitano mìles that contributed with its two thousand shields to the completion of the facade (sec. XVII).  Th...

This palace of sixteenth-century origins, was renovated in the eighteenth century. Belonged to Morano-Barlotta, Riccio and Morana and gradually to other families, is now owned by the Free Consortium o...

In the fifteenth century the palace was a city hospital, but between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century it was renovated, at the behest of Captain Lucatelli, whose f...

The palace has a Catalan style entrance portal that leads to the inner courtyard with arches and its architectural details still tells about its oldest historical phases, the fifteenth and sixteenth c...

The palace was formerly part of the Jewish quarter of Giudecca, whose historical memory has remained unchanged in its name, along with that of the Ciambra family that commissioned it and whose coat of...

The villa takes its name from the Trapanese minister Nunzio Nasi, who was the owner, and was built on a project by the engineer Giuseppe Manzo in 1898.  The building is characterized by the origina...