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Your HOLIDAY in TRAPANI WESTERN SICILY The province of Trapani, in addition to the production of oil, wine and citrus, is renowned for the production of salt according to traditional techniques. La "Salt Road" - which leads from Trapani to Marsala along the coast - accompanies visitors through beautiful scenery of light reflections on the salt ponds, where you can also see herons rose during migration seasons. La Reserve of Saline, home staging for a good 185 bird species, is ideal for those who want to practice bird watching. Continuing on the road, we reach the nearby Tower of Nubia, dating from the seventeenth century, from there you may well admire the Aegadian, the salt, Mount Erice and the entire coast of the province of Trapani. Within the reserve there is also the Saline Salt Museum, which houses intact in an old beam of saline, the memories of the ancient art of growing up and the lacustrine environment is one of the most interesting landscapes, vegetation halophyte and birdlife. A few kilometers ahead of Marausa, meets the pier for Mozia (Stagnone Islands), home of the ancient Phoenician city, the museum and around the island - left to their original places of belonging - are the remains the most valuable present in the province, concerning the wars phoenix. The city of Trapani is rich in numerous churches and ancient buildings, has missed the walk above the original city walls, Tramontana, the walls of the Tower of Ligny , now the Museum of Prehistory. Going to the outskirts of Trapani you can visit: the Regional Museum Pepoli that houses the most beautiful corals of Sicily and the permanent exhibition of contemporary religious art DiArt at the Episcopal Seminary. Erice is a few miles from Trapani and is accessible by car, cable car and bus. Erice is an ancient town in style with its medieval castles, churches, forests, is also ideal summer hotter. From the Garden of Balio, made at the end of 1800, you can enjoy breathtaking views of the most beautiful in the world. From Trapani, along the coastal road north, we reach the town of Custonaci, famous for its handicrafts, marbles, and the magnificent mother church, so still, one meets the Reserve Monte Cofano which can be visited through the paths landscape, then onward to the seaside village of San Vito Lo Capo, famous for its beautiful beaches and crystal clear water almost exclusively. Continuing north, you can visit on foot the wonderful Zingaro Nature Reserve, a rare example of pristine Mediterranean vegetation sloping gently to the sea in a succession of coves of exceptional beauty. From Trapani you can reach the Aegadian (Favignana, Marittimo, Levanzo) and Pantelleria. Street Expressway, just 20 km from Trapani, Segesta there, with the mosque found in recent excavations, and the greek temple, the amphitheater where every year there are events of comedies and tragedies of classical greek and latin. Continuing on the highway, after 40 minutes, you arrive in Mazara del Vallo, where you can visit the statue of the Dancing Satyr recently discovered and attributed to Praxiteles, and situated in a Punic ship museum rich in ancient civilizations. A 10 minute drive from Mazara del Vallo, on the southern coast of the province, is Selinunte, where to visit the interesting archaeological park with temples still almost intact, the old Acropolis, Necropolis and the peaceful reserve at the mouth of the river Belice. 
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