The cathedral of Mazara del Vallo was built between 1088 and 1093, according to the typical canons of Norman architecture. Only a few vestiges of the original building survive - the apse area and the transept wall - since the duomo was restructured s...

The old centre of the town of Mazara recalls one of the happiest and most prosperous periods of its history, under Arab domination. In fact, the Arabs began their conquest of Sicily precisely from this town. There are four important quarters to the A...

The stretch of coast that separates Marsala from Mazara del Vallo is very beautiful and fascinating - lapped by an incredibly limpid sea, its tones ranging from intense blue to emerald green, with its rugged and jagged coastline sculpted by stormy wi...

The ex-college of the Jesuits faces Piazza del Plebiscito - an elegant Baroque building, the work of the architect G. Napoli, characterised by the lavish portal adorned by pairs of telamons -nowadays a multi-purpose cultural centre; The Civic Museum...

The interesting Diocesan Museum of Mazara del Vallo is housed in the rooms of the Ecclesiastical Seminary - designed by the Trapani architect G. B. Amico in 1744, and characterised by a fascinating double loggia with an unusual visual effect - its en...

The palace of the Knights of Malta in Mazara del Vallo, recently carefully restored, precisely during these restoration works yielded a series of archaeological finds of great interest: vestiges relative to various phases of the town's history, that ...

Mazara del Vallo, standing on the left bank of the River Mazaro, on the western coast of Sicily, is an agricultural and maritime town, known above all for its unusual canal port, one of the most important Mediterranean fishing ports and the foremost ...

In the mazarese inland area lies one of the most interesting wetland areas in the Province of Trapani, that of Gorghi Tondi and Lake Preola, protected as an Integral Nature Reserve. An area of importance given its great biological diversity. The prot...

In March, 1998 in the waters of the Sicilian Channel, precisely in that stretch of sea between Pantelleria and Africa, a Mazara fishing boat recovered a splendid and mysterious bronze statue. Dating and establishing its artistic-cultural function bot...

Mazara preserves a rich monumental and architectural heritage, including many outstanding churches ranging from the eleventh to the eighteenth century. In the Baroque period the town's appearance changed and this is also reflected in the splendour of...