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.

Tower of Nubia

Paceco
The tower, with a square plan, has three floors reachable by an external staircase, which leads to a terrace above, reaching a total height of about fifteen meters. The ground floor, originally the "p...

Vita

Vita is a village that admires the majesty of Mount Baronia, the mountain that 'looks benevolent', which houses one of the largest green lungs of western Sicily: the forest of Baronia.     Here the...

Santa Ninfa

This small agricultural centre has eighteenth-century origins, strongly affected by the earthquake of '68.  Near this centre there is a very important naturalistic area, a real natural pearl in the...

Salaparuta

The ancient centre of Salaparuta, at 385 meters above sea level, was destroyed by the violent earthquake of January 1968 which devastated the entire Belice Valley.  The ruins of the historical town...

Poggioreale

Walking through the ruins of Poggioreale Antica is like being on a set of a dramatic, post-war film. Here the cry of a tragedy is more alive than ever, that of the Belice earthquake which also destroy...

Ruins of Poggioreale Antica

Poggioreale
Like a recent Pompeii, ancient Poggioreale is a theatre of ruins between drama and poetry, characterized by the suspension of time: a place of memory that tells the life of a community crystallized be...

Petrosino

At Petrosino you can spend a vacation enjoying its crystal clear sea and discovering the territory and the history of its fine local wine traditions.   The small town is nestled in the beauty of th...

Campobello di Mazara

The dense foliage of centuries-old olive trees characterises the landscape of this town, between the countryside and the sea, which is full of fascinating historical and cultural treasures. Its anc...

Castello Grifeo

Partanna
The Castello del Grifeo was the fulcrum of Partanna’s defensive system and takes its name from the 12th-century fief in which it stood. The imposing building is one of the best-preserved fortresses in...

Partanna

From the hilltop on which this village stands, between the Modione and Belice valleys, the view extends as far as the coast, across the rolling hills of this unique landscape. It’s here that the Caste...

The Archaeological Park of Segesta

Calatafimi Segesta
A very important Elymian political centre together with Eryx (Erice), Segesta 's monumentality  is surrounded by a hilly Mediterranean landscape and panoramas of striking beauty. On the site, the i...

Calatafimi Segesta

Those suffering from Stendhal's syndrome tend to feel upset when exposed to works of art of extraordinary beauty. If archaeology sported its own version of the syndrome, visitors to Calatafimi Segesta...
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