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Historical signs:

An ancient city, with thousand dominations, with so many legends: Marsala.
The first inhabitants have been the Sicanis, coming from the Iberian peninsula, then the Elimis from Enea, perhaps the Greek. Then the Phoenician ones, that after the destruction of the neighbor island of Mozia, made of Lilibeo (so they called Marsala) a strategic base of enormous importance. Then still the Romans, the Arabs, that gave at the city the name of Marsa-Allah, the Norman ones, the Angioinis, the Spaniards.
And walking around the historical center, entirely restructured today, the Marsala history can be relived, its ancient past isn’t forgotten. A new city been born by the swords by the wars and by the love of men and different cultures.

The Historical Center:

The historical center in Marsala has the form of a quadrilateral as the ancient Roman cities, closed by 4 ancient doors, 2 of which still existing.
The turn of the center can be started entering for one of these: Porta Garibaldi
From here in the 1860 Garibaldi started for the unification of Italy.
Entering in Porta Garibaldi, ther’is the heart of the historical center, close to the car traffic.
On the left the Madonna Addolorata Church, whether you can admire the statue of the Virgo that in Easter period is brought in procession by the believers for the streets of the city.
On the right the Fish Market where to buy some good fresh fish o, fruit and vegetable and you can taste 2 typical specialties: the Panelle and the Pizza Sfincione. Now in the evening and in the night in the ancient Fish Market ther’are many pub, bars and locals full of people.
Continuing for  Garibaldi Street and passing the ancient Spanish district, center of the Town Building, you are in Piazza Loggia, the heart of Historical center.
The name of the sqare in reality is Piazza della Republica and entertains the Chiesa Madre, the most important Church in Marsala and a big building, the Palazzo IV Aprile. The cathedral is in Baroque style devoted to St. Thomas of Canterbury
Behind the Chiesa Madre it is possible to visit the Tapestries Museum, center of 8 Flemish tapestries in wool and silk of the XII sec.

Beside, the Purgatory Piazza with it's fountain and Baroque Church and then  the Convent of the Carmine, the most ancient of Marsala, center of the corporate of Contemporary Painting, a splendid fusion between present and past.
Returning on the main road ther’is the Complesso Monumentale St. Pietro, town Library, Garibaldi Museum, archaeological Museum and Museum of the popular traditions…in summer also cinema on open space.
Continuing we still meet churches, shops, bar, pastry till Porta Nuova, the other ancient entrance of historical center. Out of this the archeological zone, the Roman Insula  and the theatre of the city, Teatro Impero
In the Roman Insula  you can look splendid colored mosaics representative legendary beings, instead inside the Baglio Anselmi Museum, on the seaside, you can look many Punic and Phoenician reperts and the rests of a Punic Ship of the III sec A.C. It was sunk in the sea near Mozia Island in the first Punic War . Its nails that, later over 2000 years under the sea, they don't rust, they arouse the interest of chemists and scientists of the whole world!
Finally, really beside to the Baglio Anselmi Museum, the Church of St. Giovanni, now entirely restructured, devoted to one of the Patrons of Marsala, San Giovanni. The Marsala celebrate San Giovanni every 24 June, every year with a devotes procession and fires in the sea after the prayers. Moreover the church hides a secret. It is already born on a sacred zone where, before the advent of the Christianity,there was an ancient hole, the Sibilla Hole, today still attainable through a narrow burrow. The Sibilla  foretold the future and it gave oracles.

… but the historical center in Marsala is not only history, architecture and legends: it is shopping between the Italian shops; it is to taste our fantastic sweets  and ice cream. It is to enjoy a lunch or a supper tasting fresh fishes and typical  Sicilian dishes in one of the numerous restaurants and pizzeria. And anchors…
 
The Historical Center
The Beach
Stagnone natural park & Saline