Selinunte was founded on in 651 B.C. from farmers of Megara . It was a sacred site to Dionysus and was visited from Epicarmo, inventor of the comedy.  The name of Selinunte derives from the Greek Sèlinon, you finish with that came designated the appio, risen of wild prezzemolo that grew long the banks of the rivers that went through l' ancient town. Selinunte, is one of the richest and evocative archeological parks of the world, the largest dell' Europe.  The restive dell' acropolis with the high wall of defence and the majestic columns of the templi of the hill eastern, offer to the unrepeatable visitor suggestions, in a mixed one of sicilianità, grecità, myth and nature.  The town lived moments of large development in the V century B.C. Always in struggle with the close Segesta, Selinunte tenne you compare now with Carthage, now with Syracuse, but actual to work of the Carthaginians venne destroyed in 409 B.C. and lived under their dominion until the first war punica.  

 

Marinella of Selinunte in past had a central role in the Greek world, today, small village of fishermen, is a tourist locality on the rich sea of story and culture thanks to the templi, to the Greek fortifications of origin and the naturalness of its beaches is marked by and from the clear sea plowed from small typical boats.  

 

Segesta is a town of foundation elima, in perpetual conflict with Selinunte, was said Egesta from the Greek people.  Allied some Carthaginians, was besieged from the Siracusani that took it on the end of the IV sec. B.C. ll Temple is between the most significant witnesses dell' Doric architecture. Dateable to the second half of the V sec. to. C. rises outside dall' urban area, on a slope to the west layers of the Barbaric Mountain.  The temple is between the better preserved of our country; the Doric peristilio, moreover ever led to completion, presents a strong archaic turn of columns, leaning on a base to three terraces supporting the powerful architraved structure, with two eardrums on the pediments.  

 

Erice is a small town trapanese of considerable tourist interest, rises to the summit dell' homonymous mountain, in a place of spectacular panoramic characterizations, d' environment and of landscape.  In the zone it is had news, to leave from the V sec. B.C., of installations elimi; for its detail meant strategic was at the center of lit disputes sin from the most remote times and particularly between the Greek people and the Carthaginians that acquired it together with the harbor port of Drepanon.  

 

Saline Ettore e Infersa , with their three mills restored and working, spiccano in the lagoon of the Stagnone, facing the island of Mothia, long the itinerary "the road of the salt" from Drills to Marsala.  To visit the saline Ettore and Inferred, l' ancient mill and all l' neighboring area is really a' sole experience

 

Cave di Cusa is an archeological site Sicilian, that it is found in territory of Campobello of Mazara, in province of Trapani, and precisely to 13 km to northwest of the ruins of Selinunte.  It is charachterized from quarries of stone characterized from benches of extensive calcarenite long about 2 km in proximity of the coast, from that came extracted the material for the constructions selinuntine.  It is they had been in use from the YOURSELVES century B.C. until the defeat of the Greek aside of the Carthaginians in 409 B.C.  To little kilometri it is found Agrigento, been based on around 580 B.C., brags a territory in which installed themselves the varied peoples that left track in the island. Already native seat of peoples that maintained commercial relations with Aegeans and Mycenaean, the territory agrigentino saw source the polis diAkragas, been based on from geloi of origin rodio-Cretan.  

 

In this wonderful context-cultural it is found the Country Hotel The Heart of Dionysus, resides of period, an ancient Sicilian beam, l' sole that recalls the Greek and that civility fà to revive the ancient Sicilian traditions, ideal place to spend unforgettable vacations on the Mediterranean one.