Woods and Picnic Areas - West of Sicily

Woods and Picnic Areas

Natural museums open for millennia.

EXPLORE
Rolling hills and plains, dense vegetation and varied fauna, ponds and picnic areas.

You can find this and more in the woods of the west of Sicily. If you want to have a picnic, take a break or enjoy breathtaking views, immerse yourself in the area’s largest “green lungs”: the woods of Scorace, Monte Baronia or Angimbè.

Lazzaretto

Trapani
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...

Colombaia Castle

Trapani
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...

Fortifications, City Doors, Walls and Bastions

Trapani
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...

Palace of the Post Office

Trapani
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...

Palazzo D’Alì

Trapani
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...

Senatorial Palace, called Cavarretta

Trapani
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...

Riccio di Morana Palace

Trapani
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...

Lucatelli Palace

Trapani
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...

Riccio Palace of the Barons of San Gioacchino

Trapani
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...

Ciambra-Jiudecca Palace

Trapani
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...

Villino Nasi

Trapani
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...

Tower of Ligny

Trapani
The captain general and viceroy of the Kingdom of Sicily - whose name it bears - started the construction of this tower in 1671, on the north-western end of the city. This massive quadrangular constru...
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