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History

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Traditions

Castellammare is an important commercial center and in his I bring a notable traffic of export of agricultural products it is developed. Thanks, then, to a patrimony of inestimable value, constituted by the extraordinary naturalistic beauty of his/her coasts and his/her immediate hinterland, Castellammare of the Gulf has proposed justly as important pole of tourist attraction that very you/he/she can offer to his/her visitors. Set in the beautiful gulf of Castellammare, to the feet of a tall, sour rich mountain of luxuriant vegetation, the city degrades where actually softly toward the sea to the penisoletta the castle it rises, between two magnificent beaches of soft sands. The whole inhabited is discovered him/it in an only, extraordinary hit of eye - from his, "belvedere', place aloft, on the government one, from which with steep serpentine him plain in the city, This enumerates numerous and important monumental good, precise signs of the history of Castellammare,

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Culture

Scopello, small fraction of Castellammare, is formed from few residences that they join each other around to a beam (conglomerated of houses prepared in circular way, in way from to form an enclosure against the attacks of the pirates)

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Landscape

Archeology Traditions

Flour Fauna

Sea Coast

The first Natural Reserve founded in Sicily, englobes a line of around 7 kilometers of splendid and absolutely uncontaminated coast leaned out on the Gulf of Castellammare and the chain of mountains that, to the small calettes and the suggestive precipices on the sea, it serves as magnificent frame. Important for the big wealth of rare and endemic plants, the Gypsy is more perhaps it from the point of view faunistico. To the Gypsy, they nest and they are reproduced at least 39 kinds of birds. mainly rapacious, among which the wandering hawk, the gheppio and the buzzard. The area of the Reserve also dresses again a great archaeological importance in how much in the spectacular cave of the Uzzo you/he/she has had center one of the first prehistoric installations of Sicily.

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