Holidays to Trapini, Sicily |
Hook
shaped harbour
Trapini derives its name from an ancient word for "hook," for
the shape of its harbour.
To the Sicanians it was Drepano, to the Greeks Drepanon, to the Romans Drepanum.
A
little history...
The city was founded in antiquity on Sicily's western coast by the Sicanians
and later colonized by the Elimi as Erice's port.
The waters off the coast witnessed an epic sea battle between Carthaginians and conquering Romans in 241 BC, considered a turning point in Rome's conquest of the central Mediterranean.
Geographically,
Trapani is an unusual Sicilian city for its westward position, which affords
spectacular views of some of the Mediterranean's most beautiful sunsets.
The surrounding coastal plain is distinguished for its rich salt deposits,
and the white mineral is ground by the windmills seen along the coast. All
of which lends the environs an appearance that sometimes seems more Dutch
than Sicilian.
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