TrapaniCastellammare del Golfo.
In pre-Hellenic days, it was the chief port of the Elymian cities of Erice and Segesta. The Arabs, probably, built the castle in the Middle Ages. After the construction of the tunny-fishery and the wheat-loader, the town began to play an important economic and strategic role. The greatest phase of development was after 1560, when Pietro de Luna obtained the licentia populandi.

The massive Castle towers above the sea, in a strategic position, dominating the port. Trapezoidal in plan, it probably dates from the Islamic period; it was altered by the Normans and the Swabians, and later destroyed and rebuilt by the Aragonese in the 14th c., which is the period its present general aspect dates from. The Chiesa Madre, altered in the 17th and 18th c., is of 16th c. origin. It is interesting to see in the church the frescoed vault by Giuseppe Tresca (1768) and a 17th c. majolica statue of the Madonna.