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Erice is an Agricultural-commercial
center and is situated on an isolated height. Risen in the same
place of the ancient Erice, Elimi's religious center, famous
for the Venere Ericina's temple, it was contested from Syracusans
and Carthaginians until the Roman' s conquest in 244 a.C. During
the arabic invasion it was called "Gebel Hamed" and
got part of its lost importance back nel XII sec. following
then the politic sorts of the island. Today we can find many
medioevals witness and parts of the ancient walls. |
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| In Erice there are some remarkable
monuments as "La Chiesa Matrice" XIV sec. (its inside
was remaked in the last century), the medioeval castle (XII-XIII
sec.) with the temple's ruins and the "Palazzo Municipale".
Into the "Palazzo Municipale" now there are a library
and the "Cordici" Museum with archeological reperts
of the "Necropoli ericina", with an Afrodite's head
of the IV sec. a.C. The "Processione dei Personaggi"
is very intresting and it's carries out every year for the
"Maria Santissima di Custonaci" festivity (in august).
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