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Cities and towns that exude history

Cities and towns that exude history

Discover West of Italy

In these island latitudes, there are no generic localities, but rather towns, villages and hamlets whose historical, architectural and natural significance leaves an indelible mark on the memory.

That of a landscape, of a horizon drawn between sky and sea in a breathtaking sunset or of an architectural glimpse of an ancient building, composed of local stone ashlars contrasting with the intense blue of the sky.

Alcamo

Alcamo is a lively town in an enviable natural setting

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Alcamo

A town that tells its story from the heights of its mountain and mirrors itself in the Gulf of Castellammare. Medieval castles, baroque churches and the bright fragrance of its most celebrated wine await those who choose to explore it slowly.

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Buseto Palizzolo

A walk inside the scents and colors of a city garden.

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Calatafimi Segesta

A Journey Through Time in the Heart of Sicily

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Campobello Di Mazara

The dense foliage of centuries-old olive trees characterises the landscape of this town

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Castellamare Del Golfo

A natural amphitheater on the sea, the Zingaro Riserve, the Faraglioni.

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Castellammare del Golfo

A castle that has guarded the port since the Middle Ages, an old town climbing up from the sea in steps, the sea stacks of Scopello and the gateway to the Zingaro Reserve. Castellammare del Golfo is the fishing town where western Sicily, Mediterranean history and nature meet in a single view.

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Castelluzzo

Small jewel that constitutes the wildest side of San Vito Lo Capo.

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Castelvetrano

Pure uncontaminated nature

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Custonaci

The crystal clear waters of Cornino Bay

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Custonaci

A Marian sanctuary that guards a painting attributed to the school of Antonello da Messina, a troglodyte village where every Christmas the most evocative living nativity in Sicily comes to life, the Monte Cofano Nature Reserve and a hundred marble quarries. Custonaci is intimate, devoted western Sicily.

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Erice

A medieval jewel with a view that you will not forget.

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Erice

A Norman castle built on the ruins of the temple of Venus Erycina, a medieval town of stone alleys vanishing into the mist, the view from the Balio Gardens all the way to the Egadi Islands. Erice is western Sicily seen from 751 metres up, where every century has left a tower.

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Favignana

The largest of the Egadi islands

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Gibellina

The small town with the largest heritage of contemporary art in Europe

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Gibellina

A town razed to the ground by the Belice earthquake and rebuilt as a single, immense work of art: the Stella di Consagra that serves as its gateway, the great white sphere of the Chiesa Madre, and a few kilometres away the Cretto di Burri, the concrete shroud enveloping the ruins of the old town. Gibellina, Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.

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Egadi

Favignana, Marettimo, Levanzo: the islands of treasures

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Levanzo

Small and wild

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Macari

Macari, along with Castelluzzo, is a fraction of San Vito Lo Capo.

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Marettimo

Uncontaminated nature

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Marsala

Wine, baroque art and windmills

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Mazara del Vallo

A maze of Islamic-flavoured alleys where Arabic still echoes, a Greek bronze fished up from the deep that dances alone in a museum, a Baroque cathedral grown over a mosque, and four hundred trawlers bringing home the famous red prawn every day. Mazara del Vallo is the point where Europe touches Africa.

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Misiliscemi

A hidden treasure between the hills and the coasts

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Misiliscemi

Born in 2021 from the union of eight ancient hamlets, Misiliscemi is not a town but a territory: the long beach of Marausa facing the Stagnone lagoon, the salt pans of Salinagrande, the farming districts with Arabic names and the airport that is the gateway to western Sicily. Authentic Sicily, the kind you live rather than visit.

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Paceco

Windmills, salt flats, pink flamingos. It sounds like a movie, but it's all true

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Pantelleria

The black pearl of the Mediterranean

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Partanna

The medieval village surrounded by nature

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Petrosino

Nestled and looking towards a transparent sea

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Poggioreale

"The ruins that mark a people"

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Zingaro Nature Riserve

The first nature reserve established in Sicily is an untouched paradise of cliffs plunging into the sea

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Salaparuta

The sign of a violent earthquake.

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Salemi

One of the most beautiful villages in Italy. And, therefore, in the world.

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San Vito Lo Capo

White beaches, blue sea: the vacation of dreams

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San Vito Lo Capo

Sicily's most photographed beach, a sanctuary-fortress that has watched over the village since the sixteenth century and one of the most enchanting nature reserves in the Mediterranean. San Vito Lo Capo is discovered slowly, barefoot between the white of the houses and the turquoise of the sea.

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Santa Ninfa

A unique nature reserve

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Trapani

In the heart of the city of the two seas

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Trapani

A strip of land squeezed between two seas, salt pans that turn to gold and pink at sunset, windmills that grind PGI salt, the longest Misteri procession in Italy and the harbour from which hydrofoils depart for Favignana. Trapani is the beguiling, salt-tinged capital of western Sicily.

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Valderice

A dip in the blue sea, a ride in the hills, 4 steps in history: the traveler's triathlon.

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Vita

In the green lung of western Sicily: the Baronia forest.

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