Coast of western Sicily
An invitation to stop: in the villages, by the sea, in the kitchens and in the places where the area truly tells its story.
60 experiences
Experience • Marsala
The most iconic scene of the whole itinerary: the windmill still working, the pans turning pink and the island of Mozia that seems to surface among the salt, with the Stagnone lagoon in the background.
Discover the experience
Experience • San Vito Lo Capo
A hands-on lesson dedicated to the incocciatura of semolina, fish broth and the gestures of Trapani cooking.
Discover the experience
Experience • San Vito Lo Capo
A day by boat along the Zingaro coast with stops in the coves and a pass in front of the Scopello sea stacks.
Discover the experience
Experience • San Vito Lo Capo
A direct experience with the keepers of this tradition: local women who teach, gesture after gesture, how to roll the semolina according to the recipe handed down from generation to generation. The new story links this gesture to the rockfish soup and the scents of the coast, showing how semolina becomes the food story of San Vito.
Discover the experience
Experience • San Vito Lo Capo
Active from 1412 to 1969, today it is a place suspended in time: Punic cetariae tanks, abandoned stone buildings and a silence that the FAI recognised as a place of the heart in 2017. The natural close of the story of bluefin tuna in Sicily. In the new story the stop becomes part of a wider route among Monte Monaco, cliffs, caves and the Lighthouse, showing San Vito beyond the beach.
Discover the experience
Experience • Valderice
Active since the thirteenth century, the Bonagia tuna trap still keeps the tonnaroti’s muciare (boats) and the songs — the cialome — that accompanied the mattanza: the most vivid and direct memory of this trade. The new route starts from the Molino Excelsior and votive bread, then goes down towards Bonagia following the passage from land to sea.
Discover the experience
Experience • Custonaci
A tuna trap of 1404 left almost entirely to nature: its four-pointed star-shaped defensive tower emerges from the Mediterranean scrub of the reserve, on one of the wildest stretches of coast on the itinerary. The new story widens the stop to the Mangiapane Cave, the Sanctuary and the Art and Faith Museum, following stone as a thread between devotion, rural life and coast.
Discover the experience
Experience • Erice
The only Sicilian tuna trap that has kept its original function: here the tuna industry is not a museum memory but a still-living activity, in direct continuity with the old San Giuliano tuna traps.
Discover the experience
Experience • Trapani
A walk in the heart of Trapani dedicated to the art of coral, to its workshops and the city’s architecture.
Discover the experience
Experience • Trapani
A walking itinerary through market, port and historic centre to read Trapani through its catch and everyday cuisine.
Discover the experience
Experience • Trapani
An evening sail from the port of Trapani with a view of the city, Monte Erice and the islands on the horizon.
Discover the experience
Experience • Valderice
Visit to an olive grove and a small producer to learn about cultivars, harvesting and processing.
Discover the experience