Experience • Valderice
Bonagia: Tuna Trap, Fishing Village and the Memory of the Fishermen
A walk in the village of Bonagia to learn about the tuna trap, seafaring life and the changes in fishing.
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Experience • Trapani
Spice and Mafaradda Shops
To take home a piece of this tradition: in the shops of the historic centre you can still find couscous spices and ceramic mafaradde, the same vessel used for generations to roll semolina.
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Experience • Erice
Fish Couscous with a View
The same recipe told from a different point of view: from the seven hundred metres of the medieval village, fish couscous is enjoyed with the whole Trapani coast spread out beneath your eyes.
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Experience • San Vito Lo Capo
Cous Cous Fest and the Couscous Houses
The highest and most international point of this story: a festival born to make cooking an instrument of peace, which every year turns San Vito Lo Capo into the world capital of couscous. The new document widens the food thread to rockfish soup, the wild herbs of Macari and Castelluzzo and the traditional caldo-freddo.
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Experience • Custonaci
Custonaci: Mangiapane Cave and Rural Village Life
A storytelling visit to the Mangiapane Cave and the rural landscape of Custonaci.
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Experience • Custonaci
Custonaci: A Journey into Stone Between Quarries and Craftspeople
An experience dedicated to the marble and stone of Custonaci, from reading the quarry landscape to meeting those who work it.
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Experience • Erice
Erice — Traditional Cuisine with a View
From the seven hundred metres of the medieval village, the whole coast covered in this itinerary can be seen at once: the ideal place to close the story with a meal that looks down on the sea the catch comes from.
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Experience • Erice
Erice: Medieval Village and Erice Pastry Workshop
A walk along the cobbled streets of Erice and a meeting with the local pastry tradition.
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Experience • Erice
Erice: Venus, Myths and Stories with a Storyteller
A theatrical route through the village that weaves together the cult of Venus, the walls, the castle and the stories of popular tradition.
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Experience • Favignana
Former Florio Establishment — Tuna Trap Museum
Here, at the end of the nineteenth century, Ignazio Florio invented the modern method of preserving tuna and built one of the largest tuna traps in the Mediterranean: the place that best tells what this trade meant for western Sicily.
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Experience • Favignana
Favignana by E-Bike: Quarries, Gardens and Island Flavours
An e-bike tour among tuff quarries, underground gardens, hamlets and viewpoints, with a stop at a producer or a shop for an island tasting.
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Experience • Favignana
Favignana: Florio, Tuna Trap and Tasting of the Sea
A visit dedicated to the history of the tuna trap and the Florio Establishment, followed by a tasting that tells of preservation, work and tuna culture.
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