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Itinerari del Gusto

Coast of western Sicily

Paceco

An area to discover

Paceco is told in two colours: the white of the salt pans and the red of Nubia garlic. The pans, fields and villages bring the salt worker’s work close to the farmer’s.

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Paesaggio di Paceco

The identity of the place

A story to live

From the centre you reach Nubia, where salt pans and crops share the same horizon. The Salt Museum, the gestures of harvesting and the processing of garlic give a face to this productive landscape. Further inland, Dattilo adds another food tradition.

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Experiences to enjoy

Mulino delle saline di Trapani e Paceco

Experience • Paceco

Mulino Maria Stella — WWF Visitor Centre

The reference point for those who want to understand the Reserve also from a nature point of view: this is where the free WWF guided visits start, among working salt pans and migratory birds.

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Museo del Sale alle saline di Trapani

Experience • Paceco

Salt Museum and Torre di Nubia

The cultural heart of the Reserve: an old windmill turned into a museum by the Culcasi family, who have worked the “Chiusa” salt pan for generations next to the sixteenth-century Torre di Nubia.

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Le saline di Nubia con la torre e il mulino sotto un cielo azzurro

Experience • Paceco

Paceco: Sunset, Salt and Local Aperitif

A visit to the salt pans at their most evocative hours, followed by an aperitif that uses salt as the narrative thread between preserves, bread, oil and local products.

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Saline di Paceco con il mulino a vento tra i fiori gialli

Experience • Paceco

Paceco: A Day as a Salt Worker Among Pans and Windmills

A guided experience in the Paceco salt pans to understand the salt cycle, seasonal work and the role of pans, wind and windmills.

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Saline di Trapani e Paceco

Experience • Paceco

Paceco Square and the Cuisine of the Salt Houses

A more rustic, country-style cooking, where the local catch meets the products of the hinterland: here the recipes become simpler and more homely, in direct continuity with the nearby salt houses of Nubia.

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Stormo di fenicotteri rosa sulle saline di Paceco

Experience • Paceco

Paceco Salt Pans: Birdwatching Among Flamingos and Landscape

A nature outing dedicated to the birds of the wetlands and the delicate salt-pan ecosystem.

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Places of interest

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 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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The Traditional Cuisine and Local Catch Itinerary

Erice, Misiliscemi, Paceco, Trapani

There is a cuisine that does not appear in glossy guides: that of family homes, of trattorias that have kept the same name for three generations, of Sundays when grandmother made fish couscous in the ceramic mafaradda, the same one her mother used before her. This itinerary…

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Where to stay

Le saline della Riserva di Trapani e Paceco, nei dintorni di Nubia

Stay • Paceco

B&B Le Saline

B&B

Located a few minutes from the famous Trapani and Paceco Salt Pans, B&B Le Saline offers a comfortable stay in a family-friendly and relaxing setting. The rooms, bright and furnished in Mediterranean style, have air conditioning, free Wi-Fi and private bathroom.

Via delle Saline, 18 – 91027 Paceco (TP)

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Relais Antiche Saline

Stay • Paceco

Relais Antiche Saline

B&B

Located inside the Trapani and Paceco Salt Pans Nature Reserve, protected by the WWF, the property boasts a very special, indeed unique position; a position made ideal also by its closeness to the historic centre of Trapani and the port, just 5 km away.

Cortile delle Saline – 91027 Nubia, Paceco (TP)

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