EXCURSION IN TRAPANI THE PROVINCE OF WONDERS
Trapani is an Italian town of 68,665 abitanti.Trapani, known as the City of Salt and Sail, has developed a flowered economic activity bound to the extraction and trade of salt, thanks to its natural position, projected on the Mediterranean, and its port, old commercial outlet. The economy today is based on the service sector, on fishing (formerly the bluefin tuna, with the slaughter), on the extraction and export of marble, on trade-related activities and urban turismo.L´agglomerato also it includes the populous village of Casa Santa, however, belongs to the town of Erice. Therefore, the entire urban fabric includes about 100,000 abitanti.È also called "city between two seas" as it juts out on a narrow spit of land, surrounded by the sea, tapering toward the tip of Ligny Tower. The territory is vast 271 square kilometers, the largest in the province, with a density of 260 inhabitants per square kilometer. The city has an average height of three meters above the mare.a city of Trapani is characterized by the typical Mediterranean climate, consisting rarely cold winters and hot summers but generally not torrid and very windy; only during heat waves and in the presence of sirocco winds maximum temperatures can reach around 40 ° C.Con the nineties the city has proposed with more conviction than ever before as a tourist destination, historical, cultural and sports via plans for redevelopment of the historic center, the construction of new urban infrastructure, the increase in accommodation facilities, catering and entertainment, and a stronger focus on the development of its enormous historic, architectural and natural.
Monuments and places of interest:
religious architecture:
Church of the Jesuit college - complex including the college and convent, designed by Messina Christmas Masuccio, is an example of Sicilian Baroque. The Jesuit college since the nineteenth century. it houses the High School Ximenes.
Basilica-Sanctuary of Maria Santissima Annunziata, called "Madonna of Trapani."
St. Augustine Church - Built in the fourteenth century, is distinguished by its rosette and stands out on the small but lovely little square Saturn, adorned with fourteenth-century fountain.
Church of Santa Maria di Gesu - fine example of Romanesque architecture, houses a beautiful glazed earthenware, the "Madonna of the Angels", by Andrea della Robbia.
Church of Purgatory - It houses twenty sacred groups of the Mysteries.
Cathedral of San Lorenzo - The church is distinguished by the original eighteenth-century baroque facade consists of arches. Inside you can admire a painting of the Crucifixion attributed to Van Dyck. It has the dignity of minor basilica.
Church of Maria SS. dell´Itria - Other notable example of Sicilian Baroque style, this church is commonly called Santa Rita because there are venerated the saint of Cascia and the relics of the venerable Among Santo of San Domenico.
St. Peter´s Church - This church, which gives its name to the oldest district of the city, is located at a site where they were probably officiated the pre-Christian cults in honor of Saturn. The pride of the church is its magnificent organ, built by Francesco La Grassa in 1842 and consists of four rods. It has the dignity of minor basilica.
Church of the Badia Nuova - the elegant Via Garibaldi, is a small but precious baroque church.
Church of St. Albert - In Via Garibaldi, baroque and unique circular nave, is now closed to worship and hosts contemporary art exhibitions.
Protobasilica of St. Nicholas - Located in Via Baron Sera Pepoli. It has the dignity of minor basilica.
Church of San Domenico - houses a wooden crucifix of 1300 that you want to be miraculous.
Military architecture:
Ligny tower, (Turrignì) erected in 1671 on the orders of Viceroy Don Claudio The Moraldo, prince of Ligny. today inside there is the Museum of Prehistory.
Colombaia castle or Sea Castle ( ´a Culummàra)
Castello di Terra, fortification dating back to the Carthaginian, was for centuries the defensive stronghold of the city. Partly demolished to build the new police headquarters. The remains are clearly visible from the promenade Dante Alighieri.
Bastion of the Impossible, sixteenth century, located in the southeast corner of the ancient walls, was so named because of the muddy ground on which it seemed impossible to be able to build.
Bastion St. Anna or the Imperial, sixteenth, visible from Viale delle Sirene.
Bastion Conca, sixteenth, accessible from the Tramontana Walls walk.
The salt pans are still active with valuable examples of industrial archeology. The salt pans insist in the Integral Natural Reserve Saline di Trapani and Paceco WWF and characterized by a flora and a remarkable fauna.
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