Trapani
History
Ancient Drepanon out into the Mediterranean with its shape extreme tip of sickle stands the majestic Tower of Ligny built in 1761, now houses the museum of prehistory. The sea, the most suitable key to know Trapani is still a source of life with the activity fishery and has been a source of wealth in the past with coral fishing. The great masters corallai Trapani, since the second half of the 500, with their precious works have made the city famous. Today, new shops corallai young, you're reverting to a form of sap valuable and creative crafts, recovering an ancient art that seemed forgotten. A beautiful collection of coral is Pepoli Museum, located in the ancient Carmelite convent adjacent to the sanctuary, where you can admire the marble statue of the Madonna di Trapani dating from the fourteenth century. Walking through the streets of the old town has the perception of the various cultural layers that have left indelible marks in the urban, architectural and monumental city. 3 m. above sea level, has about 70,000 inhabitants.
How to get to Trapani |
By car: Motorway Palermo - Trapani (A 29), ss 113 |
train: Line Palermo - Trapani (via Milo) |
By bus: Bus services Segesta (Palermo - Trapani) Tel.0923/20066 Autoservizi Segesta (Rome - Trapani) tel.091/300556 Autoservizi Lumia (Agrigento - Trapani) Ph. 0922/20414 |
By boat: Line Tirrenia (Cagliari - Trapani) Tel.0923/545433 |
By boat: Line Ustica Lines, (Naples - Trapani) Tel. 0923/22200 |
Museums and art galleries and churches
Churches and Museums
GROUP OF MYSTERIES - Purgatory Church
Via San Francesco d'Assisi, Tel 0923/21321 - 26924
Visiting hours: Tuesday h.10.00 - 12.00, Friday h.10.00 - 12:00 and 17:00 to 19:00 ; |
MUSEUM OF PREHISTORY MUSEUM OF THE SEA and
Tower of Ligny, tel. 0923.22300
Views: daily 9.30 am - 12.30 and 16:30 to 19:00; |
MUSEUM pepole
Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, tel. 0923.539184
Views inernal season: Monday to Saturday h.9.00 - 13.30, Sunday and holidays |
SHRINE OF MARY SS. ANNUNZIATA
Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, tel. 0923/539184
Views: winter season: weekdays H 7.00 - 12.00 and 16.00 - 19.00, h | |
Summer season: weekdays H 7.00 - 12.00 and 16.00 - 20.00, |
GALLERIES
Gallery Art Ex Convento San Rocco, | |
Art Gallery Workshop, |
Natural Reserve "Saline di Trapani and Paceco"
One of the last remaining brackish environments in Sicily, where both the flora and fauna
present elements of rare hard to find elsewhere.
For guided tours contact the WWF - Agency Manager - tel. 0923/867700 |
Useful numbers
Internet Point - Cruise Terminal - Pier Health Tel 0923 /
Grimon Point Internet Cafe - Via GB Fardella, Tel 109 0923/29511
Internet Point, a phone center and money transfers - Phone & Internet Ferrante Polo - Viale Regina Elena 26 / 28 (Port area) Tel.0923/28866
Post Office - Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 3 Tel 0923/434111
Post Express - Via Errante, 19 Tel 0923/873634
Stazione FS - Piazza Umberto I ° Tel 0923/540416
Vincenzo Florio Airport - Tel 0923/841222 Birgi
Carabinieri - Via Orlandini
Province Tel 0923/27122 - Piazza Vittorio Veneto Tel.0923/806111
Hall - Piazza V. Veneto, 1 Tel 0923/590111 - 590298
Local Police - Tel 0923/590120 Piazza delle Vergini
Traffic police - Piazza Scarlatti Tel.0923/593780
Fire Department - Road Palermo / Milo Mokarta Tel 0923/556062
Master Porto - Via Torrearsa, 2 Tel 0923/28900
Cruise Terminal - Pier Health Tel 0923/871922
Navy League - Viale L. Catullo Tel 0923/547467
Abate Hospital SA - Via Cosenza Tel 0923/809111
ER - Via Cosenza Tel 0923/809450
Doctor - General Square Scio, 1 Tel 0923/29629
Italian Red Cross Ambulance Serv No-Way Riccio, 111 Tel.0923/21221
Ambulance Service Green Cross - Via Salemi, 26 Tel 0923/539741 Emergency Ambulance Service
Trapani - Via A. Netherlands, 2 Tel.0923873000
Friend Rescue Ambulance Service Tel.0923/541451
Prefecture - Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 1 Tel 0923/598111
ACI-Via Virgilio, 71 Tel 0923/27292
Car Rental Avis - Tel 0923 Via Virgilio / 590304
Holiday Car Rental Car - Via Passo Enea, 60 Tel 0923/22177
Sicily by Car Rental - Via Passo Enea, 30 Tel 0923/27251
Sixt - Via M. Torre, 21 Tel 0923/28533
Pocorobba Car - Via Orlandini, 16 Tel 0923/547087
Guitta Coach Hire - Via Orti, 13/15 Tel 0923/22703
Garage kept - Via Mazzini, 17 Tel 0923/547022
Areas Camper (1) Piazza Vittorio - (2) Via Ilio
Medi Diving Equipment. Sea Del Carlo - Via Alders, 11 Tel 0923/551933
Fardelliana Library - Via Ig. S. Giacomo Tel 0923/21506
Swedish Consulate - Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 6 Tel 0923/21121
Morocco Consulate - Via Castellammare, 3 Mill Tel.092329041
Maria Stella - Visitors Reception Centre WWF Tel.0923/867700
Ass.ne Volunteer "ARES Blue. ONLUS" (Ambulance Service - Service disabled) - Via Nausica, 16 Tel.0923/23050
Exchange
Banco di Sicilia - Via Garibaldi, 9 Tel 0923/28222
Banca del Popolo - Piazza S. Augustine, 16 Tel 0923/873015
B. Commercial I. - Via Torrearsa, 41 Tel 0923/24741
Banca di Roma - Corso Italy, 38 Tel 0923/27133
Railway Station Piazza Umberto I ° (including holidays) Tel 0923/540416
Leisure
Tennis Rowing Club - Viale Regina Elena, 94 Tel 0923/28084
Tennis: Tennis Club Trapani - Tel 0923/532468
Contrada Milo Soccer Provincial Omnisports Stadium - Via Sicilia Tel 0923/568288
Football "Cipponeri" - Via S. Motisi, 3 Tel 0923/526139Calcetto
POL Forese - Via Erice, 9 Tel 0923/533615
Fulgatore POL - Way of the Athletes (Fulgatore) Tel 0923/811506
Sporting Club "The Locomotive", Via Marsala, 74 Tel 0923/555101
Pool: Communal - Via T. Alberti, 48 Tel 0923/551736
Palasport: Via Ilio Tel 0923/590298
Pala Bowling: Motorway Tel 0923/556175
Theater: University - Lungomare Dante Alighieri Academy of Music Tel 0923/560271
A. Proof - Via F. Sceusa, 1 Tel 0923/551465
Club: Dolce Vita - Via Egadi, 11 Tel 0923/549241
Country Ltd, Contrada Milo Errante Tel 0923/538212
"five minutes to midnight", Via dei Mulini 0923 Tel /
"Alter Eg, Calvin Street Poet Tel 0923 /
" Virtual Cyber \u200b\u200bClub, 0923 Via Osorio Tel /
"Harry's Club", Via Sicilia (Erice Casa Santa) 0923 Tel /
"Zacharias", Via degli Iris Tel 0923 /
Pub: "Irish pub", Via Palermo, 82 Tel 0923/552424
"bocadillo, Ctr. Rigaletta Milo Tel 0923 /
Disco Pub "Caterpillar" Lungomare Dante Alighieri Tel.0923 /
Disco Bar "Sweet Dream", Street 46 Tel 0923 /
Disco "Happy Hours", Lungomare Dante Alighieri 0923 Tel /
Kartodromo Kinisia, Kart hire, ctr. Runza (Surveying) Tel 0923/864053
Local products and handicrafts
Fish
Tuna srl \u200b\u200bVia 1 Backbone Zir Tel 0923/5557726
Florio Adragna traps srl Via, 50 Tel 0923/555685
Guiana F.sco & CPzza slipway Tel 0923/23945
Sicom Fishing Bosco Via Colombo, 32 Tel 0923/29798
Gaetano Polizzi & C. Course Mattarella Tel 0923/531110
S. Coop. Rebirth Square slipway, 10 Tel 0923/26695
N. Castiglione sas Ctr. S. Cusumano (Santa Casa) Tel 0923/562888
La Torre V. Via dei Pescatori, 1 (Santa Casa) Tel 0923/569080
Plants Tre Torri Via Viterbo, 1 (Santa Casa) Tel 0923/562368
Sea Salt
Sosalt Spa Area Ronciglio Tel 0923/540344
Gre-Fra Culcasi Funai Via, 23 Tel 0923/549748
SIESSpa Via Ballast Island Tel 0923/27731
Newfoundland Street Libyan Km.1 Tel 0923/531000
Wine
L in Pergola Via GB Fardella, 412 Tel 0923/873572
Per Bacco Via GB Fardella, 346 Tel 0923/22062
Via GB Fardella BURBON Street, 207 Tel 0923/871188
V. Lazzara Street Girl, 12 Tel 0923/21065
G. Riccobene Via Osorio, 54 Tel 0923/27820
Virgilio V. Via Alcamo, 60 Tel 0923/24050
Fazio Wines Via Capitan Rizzo, 39 - Fulgatore Tel.0923/811700
Dairy
Ingardia Via Campo Sportivo, 3 - Paceco Tel.0923/526144
Zappalà Industry (Deposit) Via The Gossip, 17 Tel.092325222
Pottery
Perrone MC Vittorio Emanuele, 106 Tel . 0923/29609
L. Pipitone Pepoli Street, 190 Tel 0923/552468
Working Coral
Via Vespers Graffeo, 202 Tel.0923/546171
Fiorenza Platimiro via Osorio, 36 Tel.20785
AB Precious Via Livio Bassi Tel 0923/29950
Restaurants
the lights Tavern C. Vittorio Emanuele, 75 Tel 0923/872418
Al Xitta SS Fireplace - Paceco Tel.0923/883888
Via Asmara Asmara, 123 Bonagia Tel.0923/592423
Baglio Elena Via EC Cut from Stone, 27 Via S. Tel.0923841949
From Bettina Christopher (near Porto), 5 Tel 0923/224800
Dell'Arco Street N. Bixio, 112 Tel.0923/27796
Miramonte Via Palermo, 106 Via San Francesco Fontana Tel.531100
G. Bosco, 5 Tel.0923/24056
Gi. Sea of \u200b\u200bJustinian E. Villa Via Rosina, 52 Tel 0923/534091
Corner of Old Iovino A. Via XX Settembre, 54 Tel 0923/29600
love you to death Via Socrate, 11 Via GB Meeting Tel.0923534320
Fardella, 321 Tel 0923/23366
La Perla V.le Mozia - Tel 0923/841577 Marausa
Beijing Exhibition G. Largo France, 7 Tel 0923/28213
P. & G. Via Spalti, 1 Tel 0923/547701
Pietrucci A. Via E. Fardella, 25 Tel 0923/25359
Taverna Paradiso L. Dante Alighieri, 22 Tel 0923/22303
Tucci Mattarella Agostino & CC, 112 Tel 0923/555520
The Stele of Anchises Square Riviera - Cornino Tel.0923/971053
Company Misiliscemi Fontanasalsa Guarrato Tel.0923864261
Castelmonte of Duke Street Motisi, 3 Xitta Tel.0923/526139
Zu Mommo Fontanasalsa Guarrato Road, 17 Bridge Street Tel 0923/864699 Al
Forese Tel 0923/531053 Via Margarita
Anchises, 21 (Bonagia) Tel 0923/573113
Via Paolo Gallo Firenze Tel 0923/555811
Marlin Via Nicolò Burgio, 10 ang. M. Torre Tel 0923/27395
Rendez Vous Corso Vittorio Emanuele Tel 0923/22866
La Bomba Silver Street, 70 Tel 0923/539618
Flowers Via Cosenza, 53/57 Tel 0923/553395
Il Gabbiano Loc Pizzolungo Tel 0347/6646438
Coppola NCDA San Cusumano, 5 Tel 0923/563934
M. Lombardo Via G. Marconi, 147 El Tel 0923/553069
bocadillo Begonia Street, 21 (Milo) Tel 0923/554218
The Galley Via L. Catullo (Navy League) Tel 0923/547467
platform 1 SS 113, Km 357 - Tel 0923/811467 Ummar
La Piazzetta Square Salinagrande - Tel 0923/867161 Salinagrande
Tamarea Anchises Via, 21 Tel 0923/592147
Old America Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 152 Tel 0923/555584
Pubs
Usual Place Via Errante, 35 Tel 0923/24545
FVle Barresi R. Elena, 30 Tel 0923/20011
go there C. Mattarella, 150 Tel.0923/551015
Cantina Siciliana Via Giudecca, 32 Tel 0923/28673
Da Peppe Spalti Via, 50 Tel 0923/28246
C. Del Corso Italy, 51 Tel 0923/23475
Del Porto (Felix Da), Staines Road, 45 Tel 0923/547822
Safina EB Piazza Umberto I, 35 Tel 0923/22708
Picolit Biscottai Street, 6 Tel At the helm
0923/549790 Via Passo Enea, Tel 112 0923/28718
La Bomba Silver Street, 70 Tel 0923/539618
The Bettolaccia GE Fardell Street, 25 Tel 0923/21695
Pizzerias
Taxi Pizza (takeaway) Via Orti, 25 Tel 0923/25422
Alec MCVittorio Emanuele , 237 Tel 0923/547176
Nasi Via Calvino, 77 Tel 0923/21464
Calvin G. Via G. Iron, 3 Tel 0923/872811
Martinez (Take Away) Via Palma, 39 Tel 0923/553000
Figuccio B. (Take away) Via Garibaldi, 71 Tel 0923/548809
Gianguzzi of Salerno Via delle sawmills Tel 0923/565000
charcoal Via GB Fardella, 5 Tel 0923/546570
The Firefly Via Ponte Salemi, Tel 126 0923 / 883699
Di Genova Street Marsala - Relief, 413 Tel 0923/864431
Morsellino & Abate Via Virgilio, 71 Tel 0923/871774
Peace G. Via Orti, 25 Tel 0923/25422
A. Urso Via Libertà, 16 Tel 0923/873751
Perino C. Vespers Street, 144 Tel 0923/27174
Pipitone G. Romej Via, 11 Tel 0923/27680
Pipitone N. Via Castellammare, 10 Tel 0923/540255
Pronto Pizza (takeaway) Square Cemetery, 16 Tel 0923/567433
M. Scarcella Via M. Amari, 36 Tel 0923/555966
Scimemi G. Silver Street, 24 Tel 0923/532813
Self Service
Pilot Street Staines Admiral (Molo Health ) Tel 0923/548488
Fast Food
Poldo Mattarella Course, 8 Tel 0923/549802
Via A. Angelino Staines, 85 Tel 0923/28064
The Crocodile Via Manzoni, 0923 Tel /
Mythical Via Manzoni, 3 Tel 0923/557841