Castellammare del Golfo

Castellammare del Golfo is a municipality in the province of Trapani in Sicily region of Italy, with 14,809 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).

Location and data

The community is located 40 km east of Trapani and 67 km west of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Gulf. The site covers an area of 127 km ². The inhabitants live on agriculture, the furniture industry, the marble processing and tourism. The community is a member of the Regione Agraria n 2 - Colline di Erice littoral and the Golfo di Castellammare Patto Territorial; because of the terms Segestane it also applies to a thermal spa.

The districts are Balata di Baida, Castello Inici, Dagala Secca, Fraginesi and Scopello.

The neighboring municipalities are Alcamo, Buseto Palizzolo, Calatafimi Segesta, Custonaci and San Vito lo Capo.

Castellammare del Golfo is on the SS 187 and on the train route Palermo - Trapani. The journey to Trapani is approximately 1 hour. The journey to Palermo is about 1.5 hour. The nearby A29 can be reached via a private access road to the port of Castellammare del Golfo.

History

In ancient times, was the site of the port for Erice and Segesta for, one of the most important cities of the Elymians. The Arabs continued to develop the city and built a fort with a trapezoidal ground plan, which could only be reached via a removable wooden bridge. al - Idrisi, the geographer Roger II describes Al Madarig so accurate that it can be identified with the current system, although no discernible components to the Arab or Norman period can be attributed. It was at the beginning of the 14th century, first destroyed by Frederick II of Sicily and then rebuilt. Further repairs were made in the 16th century.

Economic upturn brought the tuna fishing. In the district of Scopello is still a Tonnara, a former tuna fishing.

The war of Castellammare, a bloody power struggle within the Mafia in New York City in 1930, takes its name from the place where some of the counterparty from Castellammare del Golfo and its surrounding areas came.

Buildings and cityscape

  • Parish Church of Maria Santissima del Soccorso from the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Fort from the 14th century, today the seat of the Polo museum " La Memoria del Mediterraneo " with the departments Acqua e Museo dei Mulini (Museum of Water and mills ), Museo delle Attività Produttive ( Fondazione " Anna Lisa Buccellato " ) ( Museum of Applied Arts ), Museo Archeologico and Museo delle Attività Marinare (especially the tuna fisheries dedicated )
  • Scopello, the tourist center of Castellammare del Golfo

Environment

  • Terme Segestane, hot sulfur springs 7 km south of the city, località Ponte Bagni
  • Riserva Naturale dello Zingaro, a nature reserve

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Antonio Veneziano (1543-1593), Italian poet
  • Salvatore Maranzano (1868-1931), boss of the Bonanno family
  • Giuseppe Aiello (1891-1930), mobster in Chicago, President of the Unione Siciliana, opponent of Al Capone
  • Stefano Magaddino (1891-1974), mob boss of Buffalo
  • Joseph Bonanno (1905-2002), boss of the Bonanno family later classified as American mafia clan in New York City
  • Carmine Galante (1910-1979), Mafioso
  • Piersanti Mattarella (1935-1980), President of the Sicilian Region

Shot on location in Castellammare del Golfo

  • Ocean's 12
  • Avenging Angelo
  • My name is Tanino
  • Cefalonia, TV Series
  • Commissario Montalbano Il senso del tatto
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