ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
CHURCH ST. GIOVANNI BATTISTA AL BOEO
The first construction of the Church of San Giovanni Battista seems to date back to the 5th century AD with the first Lilibetan bishops , Gregorio and Pascasino.
It initially belonged to the Basilians and then passed to the Jesuit Fathers . This ancient place of worship, inspired by the adoration of water, becomes a baptismal font and, identified as the home of the Sibyl Lilibetana or Sibilla Sicula, a destination for pilgrimage and prophecies.
At the center of the cave the source still flows and in front of the cavity there is a stone altar with a marble image of San Giovanni Battista, co-patron of the city, dating back to the 15th century.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF SAN GIROLAMO
The excavation has revealed, for the first time in Marsala, a part of the house belonging to the Punic foundation of the city, located in the first half of the 4th century. to. C. At present it is not possible to define the extension of this housing unit but it is certain that the subsequent buildings respected the orientation of this primitive room.
The medieval phase is preserved only in some sectors of the excavation. The oldest layers are present in a small sector of the area that brought to light some wells and the corner of a building, consisting of two walls with a quadrangular pillar in the center.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF CAPO BOEO
In the area of ​​the Capo Boeo area, remains of houses have been found, the most important of which is the insula, brought to light in 1939, dated around the 2nd - 1st century BC which seems to respect an existing historical layout.
There are traces of buildings throughout the area dating back to the first two centuries of the Roman imperial age and to the third century AD, when the Colony Helvia Augusta Lilybitanorum was established.
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Boeo promenade
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA OF MOZIA
At the extreme north-western tip of Sicily, almost opposite Marsala, the sea forms a lagoon, called Stagnone, closed to the west by Isola Lunga and to the east by the Sicilian coast.
At the center of the lagoon are the island of San Pantaleo, seat of the Phoenician colony of Mozia and the other two small islands of Santa Maria and Schola.
Island of Mozia ticket office
The island of Mozia can be reached from two landing stages:
Open every day
10: 00-14: 00 and 15: 00-19: 00
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Island of Mozia
Ticket Euro 6.00 adults
Ticket Euro 5.00 students
PALEOCRISTIAN NECROPOLIS
The vast area of Santa Maria della Grotta boasts an ancient history. In the Punic and then Roman times, up to the second century. BC, it was part of the vast necropolis of Lilibeo, as documented by the numerous hypogeal tombs with vertical wells (in one case with a burial chamber), with a rectangular or quadrangular pit, used for burial and cremation in amphorae, dug into the rock at various depths in the plateau which later became the upper churchyard of the Church of Santa Maria della Grotta.
The so-called catacombs of Lilibeo extended in a vast area between the church of the Madonna dell'Itria and, along the railway line, up to the national road to Trapani.
HYPOGEUM OF CRISPIA SALVIA
The painted tomb of Crispia Salvia is the most important monument of the Lilibeo Necropolis and at the moment also the only one due to the richness of the pictorial decoration and its particular characteristics.
It is a large hypogeal burial chamber , trapezoidal in shape, accessed by a stepped dromos carved into the rock. The floor is made up of a friable layer of mortar and has a rise in the center where a small altar was placed.
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from 09 to 13
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