A window on Mazara...

1

MAZARA DEL VALLO

INHABITANTS

about 52,000 inhabitants live in Mazara; It's a multicultural town where people coming from different countries live together in peace.

Armony

PEOPLE FROM different COUNTRIES CoME TO SEE THIS AMAZING EVENT

BLUE SEA LAND

...DIFFERENT IN RELIGION AND CULTURE...

!!!!1INTEGRATION!!!!

Our amazing traditions

Sicilian tarantella

Sicilian cart

Sicilian puppets

OUR SPECIALITIES

ICE CREAMARANCINAGAMBERO ROSSO. . . . . . . .

VS

Economy

The main local working activities are: Fisheries, Agriculture and there are some industries.in our town the most popular food is Gambero rosso that is caught in the Sicily channel.

OUR FISH...

The territory

Mazara is on the Mediterranean Sea and it's crossed by two rivers:the Mazaro and the Arena.

The historic center of Mazara del Vallo is made up of four districts organized according to the layout of the" Medina", an Arab urban layout: the• Kasbah, that is the Islamic district par excellence located along the quadrilateral of the ancient walled city: San Francesco to the west, the Giudecca to the east, Xitta and San Giovanni street

Urban structure of the historic center

"RUE DELLA GIUDECCA"

• "La Giudecca" is a neighbourhood inhabited in the past, by the Jewish community, bounded on the south by to Via Goti, a narrow and winding road that opens into the splendid "Piazza di San Michele".

Xitta, the oldest neighbourhood after Giudecca, is located at the intersection of Via Veneto and Corso Umberto.

SAN GIOVANNI

• San Giovanni, embraces the rest of the walled city and is still the seat of civil and religious power. The heart of the neighbourhood is Piazza della Repubblica.

Sea ​​that returns treasures

Sea ​​that returns treasures

satiro

Fished out of Sicilian channel, the Satyr is one of the most important monuments of our city

before vs after

Norman archBEFORE

NOWrepubblica square

NOWADAYS

before

MONUMENTS

GARIBALDI THEATRE

NORMAN ARCH

CATHEDRAL CURCH

SANT IGNAZIO CURCH

SAN FRANCESCO

San Francesco church was built on a preexisting church, dedicated to San Biagio, built by Conte Ruggero D' Altavilla in the second part of the XI century.

the city ​​of 100 bell towers

The promenade

we are ready to go

we will conquer you all

3

2

1

4

MAZARA DEL VALLLO

THANKS!