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Marzamemi e Pantalica

The name Marzamemi comes from an arab word “Marsà al Hamen” that means Bay of pigeons,because of the great number of this kind of birds in spring. It is a small village washed by Ionian sea (Mar Ionio) and it is located under the sea level. In the Ionian Sea there are the 2 Marzamemi’s isles.Its inhabitants are devoted to fishing that was very famous in the past thanks to the tunny-fishing net. The Marzamemi tunny-fishing net was the second in Sicily after the Favignana one (in Trapani) and today it is ocasionally used every 5 years.It was put in Sicily by the Arabs during their Kingdom. Around the central square there are the fishers’ houses that gives to the landscape a fantastic uniformity.All these houses were built in 1600 ,the same period of the tunny-fishing net.In 1752 was built the Palace of the Villadorata Prince (Palazzo del Principe di Villadorata) in sandstone and in honour of it all the fishers’houses were restored.

The name Pantalica comes from the arab word “Buntarigah”,that means cave,it is known as on of the most important archaeological site in Sicily.It is located between Cassaro, Ferla and Sortino.Its picturesque aspect is characterized by the presence of woods, rivers and very steep walls decorated with more than 5000 prehistoric tombs that made part of Pantalica’s Necropolis. This latter is the biggest rocky settlement in Europe dated back to the XIII century b.C.
All the paths in the Valley give you the possibility to easily reach the most interesting places, such as: the Prince’s palace (Anaktoros), the Byzantine village, the bats’cave (Grotta dei pipistrelli).

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