Place of interest

Balio Garden

The “English-style” public garden of the Balio was created in 1872 by Count Agostino Pepoli on the basis of an agreement with the city administration whereby he would reclaim a dumping area and rebuild the towers in front of the Castle, which would remain his property.

Erice

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The breathtaking views enjoyed from here today form the backdrop to the perimeter box hedges of the flower beds and to the many species typical of the Mediterranean scrub: laurels, pines, ash trees, cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens), almond trees (Prunus dulcis) and holm oaks (Quercus ilex).

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Basolati and Venule

The paving is the original paving of Erice’s streets: from the oldest, formed only of stones or with simple guides, to the one in panels designed in the nineteenth century by the engineer Girolamo Varjo and made of polished slabs, in elongated hexagon shape, called catene (chains), which frame…

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Church of San Giuliano

According to legend, the Church of San Giuliano was built by Roger of Hauteville in 1076, to thank the Hospitaller Saint who had helped his son Jordan drive the Arabs out of the city, appearing on a white horse with a pack of dogs.

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Chiesa di Sant’Orsola (o dell’Addolorata)

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Church of Sant’Orsola (or of the Addolorata)

The existence of the Church is dated by local historians to the fourteenth century (1339), but it is likely that the first building dates back to the twelfth century; it underwent restorations in the fifteenth century, between 1430 and 1436, was renewed and enlarged in the seventeenth (1631), and in the eighteenth century the altars were decorated with stuccoes.

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Basolati and Venule

Church of San Giuliano

Church of Sant’Orsola (or of the Addolorata)