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Discover the best top things to do in Castelvetrano, Italy including Chiesa di San Domenico, Lido porta del sole, Parco Archeologico Selinunte, Chiesa della Santissima Trinita di Delia, Teatro Selinus, Museo Civico Selinuntino, Riserva Naturale Orientata Foce del Fiume Belice e Dune Limitrofe, Centro Commerciale Belicitta, Lido Selene, Ufficio Turistico Marinella di Selinunte.
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1. Chiesa di San Domenico
2. Lido porta del sole
3. Parco Archeologico Selinunte
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,643 reviews
Reviewed By SilapInua - Galway, Ireland
Breath-taking archaeological park; the largest of its kind in Europe, even more spectacular than the better known Valley of the Temples, 95 kms to the south east. Parco Archeologico Selinunte is a vast, captivating place covering over 650 clifftop acres and requiring a 3 to 4 hour visit. Once a Greek outpost city of 30,000 people, today its scattered, razed footprint contains a stunning assembly of ancient temples. The very best way to see the famous Acropolis, the Agora, Temple of Hera and the other temples described simply as E.F. & G. is by electric buggy which you pick up at the entrance. It charges about €10 per person; on warm summer days it’s a Godsend. The hop on- hop off buggies wends their way around the huge clifftop site allowing visitors to spend as much time as they wish at the seven surviving Doric temples and the different archaeological locations. Selinunte, the city, was twice destroyed; first in 409 BC and the finally c250 BC when it was levelled by a Carthaginian army. Its historic importance remained largely unknown until a Dominican monk, Tommaso Fazello, began to probe its story in the 16th century and two English archaeologists, William Harris and Samuel Angel, began excavations which continue to the present day, in 1825. Their work and Dom. Tommaso’s allow us a dramatic window on 2,500 years of Greek/Sicilian/Carthaginian history. Well worth the visit and don’t miss the opportunity to reflect on the magnificence of it all over a tub of glorious Sicilian ice cream at the clifftop café.
4. Chiesa della Santissima Trinita di Delia
5. Teatro Selinus
6. Museo Civico Selinuntino
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4.0 based on 34 reviews
7. Riserva Naturale Orientata Foce del Fiume Belice e Dune Limitrofe
8. Centro Commerciale Belicitta
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3.5 based on 42 reviews
In the heart of the Belice Valley, it was opened November 6, 2007 a commercial complex at the forefront, whose structural and functional characteristics are aspects of originality : Belicitta . The complex includes commercial activities and spaces for collective use for a total of 9,843 square meters. In particular, the structure houses more than 35 shops, bars, restaurants and services. These are supplemented by the hypermarket Hyper Sisa. Its large parking marked by almost 1,000 parking spaces together with three entrances to the center and to a simple and well-maintained roads, make Belicitta an extremely convenient to visit, very livable, able to accommodate every year about 2,000,000 users and to meet the needs of a very diverse clientele, both age group of interest, which can be found at the Centre an answer to every need.
9. Lido Selene
10. Ufficio Turistico Marinella di Selinunte
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