Walking in the medieval village nicknamed “the city of a hundred churches” will take you back in time Sicily offers tourists places to travel through time and history, among enchanting landscapes and breathtaking views. Among these places, a place of honor is reserved for Erice, a small medieval village located above the city of Trapani, from which it is connected both by a road and by a cable car which, starting from the provincial capital, takes you to the top of the mountain, showing more and more the panorama of the gulf and the Trapani salt pans. The history of Erice is very ancient: it seems to have been founded in the eighth century BC by the Elymians, the people born from the union of the local populations with the exiles from the city of Troy. Later disputed by the Carthaginians and Syracusans, it became a stronghold of the former,…
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