7의 리세르바 이솔레 델로 스타뇽 디 마르살라가지 명소 & 주요 장소

Ettore Infersa salt mines area to embark to visit the island of Mozia.

Luckily during my tour in Sicily I managed to see them in pink

From here you can take the ferry to the island of Mozia, a small piece of land facing the coastline between Trapani and Marsala. Mozia is a little-known archaeological site but worth the detour.

It is one of the most evocative locations in Sicily, truly unique in the panorama and in the spectacle of colors it can offer: we are obviously talking about the historic pier for Mozia, and the adjacent salt pans of the Stagnone di Marsala! The Arini and Pugliese Tourist Consortium, active with the motor ship Tanit (but also Fenice and Acquabus), carries out the connection with Mozia and the tour of the Stagnone. On board the Tanit (85 seats), it is possible to admire the magic of a place that has few equals. Not only for the historical charm that the island of Mozia brings with it, but also for the thousand stories that the lagoon seems to tell, which originate from its ancient and iconic mill and bounce on the white salt dunes, to reach the amazed eye of who watches this show.

From this point it is possible to observe a beautiful landscape: the Marsala salt pans, the Stagnone reserve and the Erice mountain in the background.

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.

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.

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.