Visit Erice in Sicily, travel attractions, travel guide, travel tip

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World Travel https://www.youtube.com/user/World1Tube Travel Guide Sicily http://bit.ly/124XYM9 Shepherd Entertainment takes you on a tour of Erice in Sicily, a historic town which had an important role in the antiquity. Visit Erice in Sicily Trapani, a town founded by the Punic, used to be the harbor of Eryx. The location of which is nice and is called Erice today. It had an important role in the antiquity. The pharaohs of the town built on top of the mountain at 750 meters, was an important point of orientation for shipment sailing around Sicily. We can often watch the mountain tops attracting the clouds as if they use them as a blanket. In artichoke, we can watch this close-up. There's often fog and rain, and clouds covering the sky above the town. What can we do while it's raining? Let's sit in the famous confectionary, eat a cake with almonds and marzipan or a lemon pie. Sicilian cakes, especially the ones with almonds are well-known and delicious. We can drink a cup of good cappuccino, maybe the strongest and tastiest anywhere. Or let's read the "Sweet Life in Italy" by Frances Mayes who was in love with Italy. By the time we finish the chapter about Erice, it has stopped raining and the sun is shining again. The Citadel Castelo Normano may have been built on the former site of the sanctuary partly from its stones. Actually, there are two medieval fortresses here; Castelo Populi and Castello Venera. Today, it's impossible to day where one of them ends and the other begins. In clear weather, there's a good view of the fortress and the parking lot in the distance. We can see the [Foreign Language] Grande and the [Foreign Language] Mountains towards the inside of the island on the coast to Sciacca and in the sea to the nearby Egadi Islands and Pantelleria further away. Today, Erice is a frequent destination for excursions, reachable by car or cable car from Trapani. The town surrounded by walls is not very big; but, its alleys are so zigzagged that it's easy to get lost. Erice considers Garibaldi to be its own hero visible by the memorial tablet placed on the wall of the town hall. Let's read how the hero of the war of independence is described by Fred Mustard Stewart in his novel. "All in all he had a pleasant face with his famous grizzled-red beard. Thousands of women dreamt about him all over the world reading the story of his famous love with Anita de Silva which was loved at first sight and she had fought in South America and Italy in his side before she died tragically soon". The neighborhood is famous for its salt furnaces. Boat men and tuna fishermen, if it isn't fishing season take us gladly from the harbor of Trapani to the Egadi Islands. In one of Levanzo's caves, we can even see ancient drawings on the rocks. In his book, they found Adesea, Aaron the Bradford thought he had found Goat Island about which Romeros was writing on Favignana Island, one of these groups of islands. Archaeologist excavated a Venus sanctuary as well which was built in the 6th century B.C in honor of the Goddess of Fertility. Tags: Visit Erice in Sicily,erice in sicily,shepherd entertainment,sicily travel attractions,Sicily travel guide,sicily travel information,sicily travel tips,world travel,shepherdfilm