"Rosa fresca aulentissima": the poetic contest by Cielo d'Alcamo is among the founding texts of Italian literature, and this town between Palermo and Trapani proudly claims its thirteenth-century author. The castle of the Counts of Modica, fourteenth-century and four-square, presides over a centre of Baroque churches on an Arab street plan.
Bianco d'Alcamo DOC, from vineyards spreading over the hills toward Segesta, is one of Sicily's historic appellations. Above town, Mount Bonifato with its wooded reserve and belvedere over the gulf of Castellammare: a half-hour walk, and western Sicily explains itself.
Near Alcamo
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
