Paceco

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

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The dazzling white of the expanses of salt, the delicacy of the pink flamingos, the yellow of the “cartucciaru” melons, the intense red of the “pizzutello” tomato, the deep blue of the sea that looks to the Egadi: Paceco is a kaleidoscope in which enchanted landscapes are featured.

Founded in 1600 and created, it is believed, by the Spanish architect Sabellos with an orthogonal plan, with perfectly parallel and perpendicular streets, today Paceco is one of the most important Sicilian towns from an agricultural and food point of view. Founded in 1600 and created, it is said, by the Spanish architect Sabellos with an orthogonal plan, with perfectly parallel and perpendicular streets, today Paceco is one of the most important Sicilian municipalities from an agricultural and food point of view. In fact, thanks to the cartucciaru melons, the pizzutello tomatoes and sea salt, Paceco is the municipality with the most slow food garrisons in the world.

Sea salt is considered “the white gold” and, over the centuries, it has also partly determined the geography of the territory, thanks to the presence of numerous salterns.

Very fascinating to visit are the windmills. And neither Holland nor Cervantes have anything to do with them. The mills (many still working today) are linked to the production of salt, so much so that one of them, the Mulino della Salina Maria Stella, is now an information and tourist reception center on the European Salt Road (Via del Sale). A marvel that warms the heart is the Riserva Naturale Orientata delle Saline di Trapani e Paceco, an enchanted place with an exceptional biodiversity of fauna and flora hosting many properties used as salt production centers.

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Saltworks of Trapani e Paceco

Humans and nature: happy coexistence.

In this natural reserve, where you can admire almost 300 species of birds, man has managed to fit in with respect and harmony. This important reserve is managed by the WWF Italian Association and covers about a thousand hectares, from the southern outskir...

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Calatafimi Segesta

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...