Sicily | Trapani & Egadi Islands | Italy Travel Diary
Last summer in Sicily. My first trip to this part of Italy and the beginning of two months of solo travel. The port town of Trapani on the west coast smells like salt and fresh seafood and sounds like seagulls chatting above neighbours on their balconies. The boat trip to the sparkling aqua coves of Levanzo and Favignana, the Egadi Islands, marked the beginning of an endless summer of adventures.
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Date: July 2017
Location: Trapani and Egadi Islands, Sicily
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DESTINATION TRAPANI - Traveling in Sicily
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Trapani is a city on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. The city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.
In this vieo you will see the old town of Trapani, all the Trapanese seaside and the local fish market.
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Sicily: Trapani & the West Coast with Sarah Murdoch | Rick Steves Travel Talks
Home-basing in charming Trapani, Rick Steves' Europe tour guide and co-author Sarah Murdoch presents this travel talk about the fun variety of side-trips around Sicily's West Coast: the ancient theater and temple at Segesta, the cliff-capping fairy village of Erice, the historic Carthaginian stronghold of Mozia and its nearby salt flats, and mellow Favignana — the best stop on the Egadi Islands.
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TRAVEL SICILY: 3 days in Trapani
Back in July, we have visited beautiful Sicily for the total 9 days, and I am beyond happy to share our journey with you full of useful tips and beautiful destinations and most delicious food. Part 1 includes 3 days we spent in Trapani, sailing to the Egadi Islands, visiting cities of San Vito and Erice. Stay tuned and be subscribed for the Part 2 full of tips about Palermo, Taormina, and Catania! GRAZIE :)
Best Attractions & Things to do in Trapani Italy
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Museo delle Saline
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Views around the Sicilian port and town of Trapani. The video begins with views over the town, port and harbour from the cruise ship the Thomson Destiny. The video then features footage taken on a long (1 1/2 hour walk) from Trapani cable car station back to the harbour. This footage features the streets and railway station of Trapani, before arrival back at the port. The video ends with footage again taken from The Thomson Destiny of the journey from the harbour as the cruise ship sets out to sea.
CAR RENTAL SICILY, ITALY - We’re on Another Road Trip!
What’s the best way to see Sicily? Hire a car!
We did a lot of research before going to Italy on how to get around, what is the cheapest mode of transportation and how good the public transport networks are. We found that travelling long distances (for example Rome to Palermo) the cheapest and easiest way is to get a coach. However, the best part about getting out of major cities is seeing the countryside and being able to stop in the little towns along the way. If you want to do this in Sicily then you really do need to hire a car.
Renting a car in Italy is very affordable. We hired a Fiat 500 for €17 a day, and that wasn’t even with a deal. It was a last minute straight from Hertz price, so we’re sure that you can get an even better price than that. Fuel can get quite expensive though, we were paying around €1.60 per litre, so just keep that in mind when you plan your itinerary.
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While in Sicily we have booked several Airbnbs. Similar to Greece this was the cheapest accommodation option. There aren’t hostels outside of Palermo and Catania, hotels are limited and can be quite expensive as well. We found Airbnbs for around $35-$50 AUD per night for a house to ourselves. Staying in an Airbnb is another good way to save money because you can make your own food (providing you have a kitchen). Eating out in Sicily isn’t what we’d call expensive, but it’s generally above our normal budget. So we ate a simple breakfast at home, usually ate lunch out and then cooked at home. We also found a lot of the food available in Italy is not exactly healthy, so having dinner at home was our chance to have some veggies!
Something that took us by surprise and was definitely a spanner in the works - everything shuts down in the afternoon! Between 12pm and 5pm (depending on where you are, some places its 1pm to 4pm) all the shops and restaurants close down. Even some super markets close during this time. The only places we noticed were open are gelato and coffee bars. But a bonus is the roads are almost completely empty during this time and street parking is FREE! So we ended up going to towns during this time, parked for free and wandered around the area by foot in peace and quiet.
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Places to see in ( Trapani - Italy )
Places to see in ( Trapani - Italy )
Trapani is a city in western Sicily with a crescent-shaped coastline. At the western tip, offering views as far as the Aegadian Islands, is the 17th-century Torre di Ligny watchtower. It houses the Museo di Preistoria e del Mare, with archeological artifacts. North of the harbor, the Chiesa del Purgatorio church holds wooden sculptures that are paraded around the city during Easter’s Processione dei Misteri.
Hugging the harbour where Peter of Aragon landed in 1282 to begin the Spanish occupation of Sicily, the sickle-shaped spit of land occupied by Trapani's old town once sat at the heart of a powerful trading network that stretched from Carthage to Venice. Traditionally the town thrived on coral and tuna fishing, with some salt and wine production. These days, Trapani's port buzzes with ferry traffic to the Egadi Islands and Pantelleria, and the adjacent historic centre is a popular place to stroll, for both locals and travellers awaiting their next boat.
The elongated scythe like form of Trapani, as it curves elegantly into the sea, inspired early settlers: the Elymians, of Phoenician extraction, named the city Drepanon, which translated means sickle. Legend tells that Demeter, goddess of harvests and of plenty, whilst seeking her lost and beloved daughter dropped her sickle in a moment of despair, and as it fell to earth and landed by the sea, Trapani grew in its place, retaining the form of the Goddess' scythe.
Myths aside, Trapani is the perfect port, and fishing village, being set on a low peninsula stretching in an arc into the sea, the housing of the city melting into plains of salt pans, valuable to the regions economy. Beyond, the solitary plains dotted with windmills dating from the medieval era, lies the open sea stretching to the horizon, punctuated only by the beautiful peak of mount Erice and the Egadi Islands.
Apart from its ancient trade in tuna, fishing, and salt, Trapani also deals in olives and wine, and in recent years has begun to flourish. At present, the province of Trapani produces more wine than Austria, Chile, Hungary, or the region of Tuscany.
Trapani is the most strategic spot in the west of Sicily as it is the only major port. Thus for the various invaders mindful of its fertile potential and geographic position, it has been considered a small but worthy prize. After the epoch of the Greeks in which Trapani was a minor colony, it became a trading centre for the Phoenicians before becoming a pivotal hinge in the Carthaginian empire. The Romans, quick as ever to spot a valuable site, then defeated the Carthaginians in the battle of the Egadi Islands and took the town, using it as a minor trading post.
After the invasion and disappearance of the Vandals, the town revived a little during Byzantine rule, until 830 A.D. when for the first time the town began to come into its own under the Muslims who virtually reconstructed the town, enclosing it with walls on all sides, and giving it a unique street plan peculiar to the Arabs, to be found in several Sicilian cities. The Arabs also increased the town's prosperity with the growth in production of salt, tuna and coral as well as introducing an irrigation system thus increasing the town's food productivity. The Normans continued to develop the town's potential, awarding it with the title Royal City. Thus this picturesque little town of position par excellence, grew in prosperity throughout the Arab and Norman period.
During the Spanish era of dominion, the town's coral production and decoration grew along with the extraction and export of marble. As a port, the town had always enjoyed the benefit of customs ensuring a constant for the town's prosperity. Charles V restructured Trapani's walls adding a deep ditch and channel around the city to protect it from attack. At the end of the eighteenth century it was pulled down and the walls lengthened to the base of Mount Erice. From this time on, the town expanded indiscriminately and without planning, and sadly continues to do so
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Trapani - Italy, 2017
A compilation of our 4 days trip to Trapani.
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