The medieval charm of the old centre of Erice is still unchanged also thanks to the many typical craft workshops that line its streets. At the beginning of the twentieth century this was still, in fact, one of the main sources of the town's income, a...

On the top of Mount S. Giuliano, precisely on the spot, famous in ancient times, where once the sanctuary of the Erice goddess stood, the Normans built a splendid fortress. The construction, also known as the castle of Venus, dates from the twelfth c...

A town of eternal unchanging charm, the mysterious events of its millenary history quite enchanting, which are often lost in the mist of legend, Erice still has its lovely medieval centre almost completely intact, where indeed time seems to have stoo...

Huge with a massive structure, the towers of the Balio make up a kind of advanced fortification system to the famous castle of Venus; entry is gained to them through the magnificent nineteenth-century English-style gardens, known as the Balio garden,...

Outstanding among the artistic-monumental heritage of the town of Erice, is the original mother church, that stands right on one of the angles of a kind of equilateral triangle that makes the peak of Mount S. Giuliano. A magnificent Christian temple ...

The architectural-religious heritage of Erice is impressive, since its urban fabric contains a great number of churches. Near the Porta Spada the lovely small fifteenth-century church of Sant'Orsola, and equally small S. Antonio Abate, its original p...

The gastronomy of Erice is deeply-rooted in the remote past, when ritual banquets were held in the shade of the Erice sanctuary, prepared with the plentiful agricultural produce, fish, locally reared meats - the Erice herds were renowned for their de...

The town of Erice is a very lively place from a cultural standpoint, in fact, boasting several cultural centres and museums. Among the latter the interesting San Matteo Country Life Museum deserves special mention, together with the Malacological Mus...

The Erice Town Hall complex contains the Museum and the A. Cordici library. The museum displays valuable archaeological finds from the ancient Erice necropoli area, outstanding among them the splendid fourth-century BC marble head of Aphrodite; the v...

One of the most interesting and best-known aspects of the town of Erice is without doubt the persistence in the centre, despite the changes of peoples and civilisations, of an equally ancient and sensual cult to the goddess of fertility and love. Myt...