Antico Erice

February 17, 2019 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

750m above Trapani on the Sicilian West coast, the Elymians (whoever they were,) built a town and a temple dedicated to Venus complete with Temple prostitutes. The temple remained intact after numerous invasions (no prizes for guessing why,) until the Normans came and flattened it to erect the Castello di Venere.

A pleasant and unspoilt mediaevil town which took a couple of hours to walk around. Cobbles, narrow streets, stone houses pressed together ... ....Read more