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Salt Pans and Windmills of the Stagnone Lagoon Nature Reserve

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Salt Pans and Windmills of the Stagnone Lagoon Nature Reserve

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Salt Pans and Windmills of the Stagnone Lagoon Nature Reserve

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Location: Marsala, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

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1. Salt Museum – Saline Ettore e Infersa loop from Terrenove Bambina

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2. Saline di Trapani e Paceco – Cycle path along the coast loop from Casa Santa

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3. Salt Museum – Seafront of Mazara del Vallo loop from Mozia-Birgi

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Felice Giordano

July 8, 2023

Boats that allow you to visit the island of Mozia, where, among other things, it is possible to admire the house where Garibaldi stayed on 20 July 1862, to look for a few hours of peace and oblivion before embarking on a new adventure: the conquest of Rome.

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Felice Giordano

July 8, 2023

Majestic giants the windmills. Architectural symbol of the Trapani area. Already at the time of the Normans in the 12th century, Frederick II understood the commercial importance of the place and imposed the state monopoly on the production of salt, used for the preservation of food. After the Normans, it was the turn of the Aragonese, who privatized the salt pans. Subsequently the Spanish boosted the economy of the area, promoting Trapani as the most important European center for the production of salt.
Until the 1960s, the windmills imposed themselves on the panorama of the Trapani salt pans. Majestic giants, with large arms with continuous and graceful movement, challenged the strong winds always present in the city of Trapani and managed under their push to create that indispensable mechanism to lift and move the water necessary for the production of sea salt.

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Felice Giordano

July 8, 2023

Clear waters, uncontaminated nature, strips of land rich in history and archaeological remains, active salt marshes, shallow waters, which can also be traveled on foot in some places, characterize the Stagnone Islands Oriented Nature Reserve, one of the first to be established in Sicily (1984 ); it protects the Stagnone lagoon, a body of water, bordered by the open sea by the Isola Grande, with three small islands in its interior, Mozia, Santa Maria and Schola. At the edges of the canals of the salt pans there are halophytic plants, including suaeda maritima, salicornia, salsola soda, limonium, inula, limoniastrum. Since July, the Stagnone has hosted autumn migratory birds: curlews and glossy ibis; with the cold the ducks arrive, with the marsh harrier waiting for them in ambush, pochards, teals, coots, mallards, pintails and garganeys. Superb and haughty herons look for food among the tanks of the salt pans.

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Distance 5.90 km

Uphill 10 m

Downhill 10 m

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Location: Marsala, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

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Salt Pans and Windmills of the Stagnone Lagoon Nature Reserve

1. Salt Museum – Saline Ettore e Infersa loop from Terrenove Bambina

2. Saline di Trapani e Paceco – Cycle path along the coast loop from Casa Santa

3. Salt Museum – Seafront of Mazara del Vallo loop from Mozia-Birgi

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