Coast of western Sicily

Marsala

An area to discover

Marsala changes colour at every stop: the white of the salt pans, the yellow of oil and the amber shades of wine. Port, historic centre and Stagnone explain why the city grew up looking at land and sea together.

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The identity of the place

A story to live

In the centre you meet the traces of the trade and the Marsala wine families. The story continues in the kitchens, among recipes that change with the season, in the wineries and in the quarries. At the Stagnone, salt and wind bring your gaze back to the landscape.

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Experiences to enjoy

Vetrina di un’enoteca nel centro di Marsala con bottiglie d’epoca

Experience • Marsala

Marsala: Historic Centre and a Journey Through the City’s Wines

A storytelling walk in the historic centre of Marsala with stops dedicated to wine culture and local flavours.

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Experience • Marsala

Marsala: Mozia, Salt Pans and Sunset with Tasting

From the Stagnone lagoon to the island of Mozia, an experience that combines Phoenician archaeology, the salt-pan landscape and the flavours of Marsala.

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Facciata barocca della chiesa del Purgatorio a Marsala

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Marsala: A Private Journey to Your Family Roots

A route built on documents and family stories to find again the neighbourhoods, churches, archives and places tied to your ancestors.

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Fish Market Square

This is the place where the catch leaves the port and becomes a food story: the old market keeps the popular energy of Marsala and links the sea to everyday cooking.

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Nave punica al Museo Baglio Anselmi di Marsala

Experience • Marsala

Stagnone Reserve and Baglio Anselmi Museum

Salt pans, windmills and the lagoon that for centuries has kept Mozia: the natural close of the story of the relationship between this coast and the sea.

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Experience • Marsala

Ettore e Infersa Salt Pans

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.

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Places of interest

Place

Church of the Purgatorio in Marsala

Facing the square of the same name, at the centre of which stands the monumental eighteenth-century fountain, the Church of the Purgatorio in Marsala was originally the Church of Saints Fabian and Sebastian, whose statue stands out on the sumptuous main façade, framed by the two side bell towers.

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Mother Church of Marsala

The solemn Mother Church of Marsala, of supposed Norman origin but completely renewed in the seventeenth century, and the Palazzo VII Aprile, of eighteenth-century appearance, with their façades, though different in style, enliven Piazza Loggia.

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Museo Archeologico Regionale Baglio Anselmi

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Baglio Anselmi Regional Archaeological Museum

Marsala boasts museum institutions of considerable importance and archaeology and painting workshops. The “Baglio Anselmi” Regional Archaeological Museum holds finds from ancient Lilybaeum, including a beautiful statue of Venus Callipyge and the interesting wreck of a Punic ship found in 971 near Punta Scario…

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Riserva Naturale Orientata Isole dello Stagnone

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Stagnone Islands Nature Reserve

Clear waters, unspoilt nature, strips of land rich in history and archaeological remains, working salt pans, shallow seabeds, in some places even walkable, characterise the Stagnone Islands Nature Reserve, one of the first to be established in Sicily (1984).

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Place

Trapani Sea Salt PGI

Trapani sea salt, compared with other cooking salts, contains more magnesium, potassium, iodine, fluorine, sulphur, calcium and a smaller quantity of sodium chloride.

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Itineraries across the area

The Trapani Couscous Itinerary

Custonaci, Erice, Favignana, Marsala, Mazara del Vallo, Misiliscemi, Paceco, Pantelleria, Petrosino, San Vito Lo Capo, Trapani, Valderice

In 2020 UNESCO inscribed Maghreb couscous on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. But on this coast couscous has an older and more intimate story: it arrived with the sailors and workers who, between Mazara del Vallo and San Vito Lo Capo, traded for centuries with the Tunisian coasts…

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The Red Prawn and Mediterranean Catch Itinerary

Marsala, Mazara del Vallo, Pantelleria, Petrosino

There is a thread that links two cities facing the same Strait of Sicily, united by centuries of history and a visceral relationship with the sea. In Mazara del Vallo everything begins at dawn, when the canal port comes alive with the return of the fishing boats — Italy’s most important fleet — from where one day in March 1998 even a bronze Dancing Satyr resurfaced…

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The Salt and Its Many Forms Itinerary

Marsala, Paceco, Trapani

As early as the twelfth century the Arab geographer Al-Idrisi described these salt pans as a treasure of the Trapani coast. Since then, for almost a thousand years, wind, sun and the shallow sea have worked together with people to turn a strip of coast into a unique landscape: pans…

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Where to stay

Stay • Marsala

Baglio Oneto dei Principi di San Lorenzo

Hotel · Luxury resort

From an old noble residence of the 1700s comes Baglio Oneto dei Principi di San Lorenzo – Luxury Wine Resort, a fabulous 5-star in Marsala on a hill just 8 km from the sea with a sandy beach.

contrada Baronazzo Amafi, 8 – 91025 Marsala (TP)

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Seawater Hotel & Medical SPA

Hotel · Luxury resort

At Seawater Hotels you regenerate with salt. A hotel where you can be reborn thanks to the powerful properties of white gold, for a holiday of health, wellbeing and relaxation. The 54 rooms, 7 of them Junior Suites with terrace, offer guests a pleasant embrace of warm…

Via Trapani, 330, 91025 Marsala (TP)

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