Duomo di San Tommaso di Canterbury ★
Marsala's mother church, dedicated to an English saint and rich in Gagini sculpture.
Marsala: 5 places to start with
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Churches Duomo di San Tommaso di Canterbury Marsala's mother church, dedicated to an English saint and rich in Gagini sculpture. -
Museums Lilibeo Marsala's Punic-Roman city, born from Motya's fall: a 28-hectare archaeological park at Capo Boeo. -
Archaeology Mozia Phoenician city on a Stagnone island, home to the famous Motya Charioteer in the Whitaker museum. -
Museums Museo archeologico Baglio Anselmi The Capo Boeo museum in Marsala holds the only Punic warship to survive to our day. -
Museums Museo Whitaker Motya island's museum, home to the Motya Charioteer and the Phoenician finds gathered by Joseph Whitaker.
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Churches and places of worship
6Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Itria
Baroque church of the Discalced Augustinians in Marsala, built over the grotto of the Madonna dell'Itria.
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
Church of 1555 at Capo Boeo, opened on 24 June, with the Sibyl's grotto beneath its floor.
Chiesa Madonna della Cava
Sanctuary of Marsala's patron in a cave with a frescoed underground church, and a 1536 painting found in 2017.
Convento del Carmine
Carmelite complex in Marsala with the Annunziata church, reopened for worship in 2025, and an octagonal bell tower.
Chiesa di Sant'Anna
Seventeenth-century church in Marsala, seat of the confraternity that stages the Sacred Representation of the Passion.
Museums, theatres and collections
5Lilibeo ★
Marsala's Punic-Roman city, born from Motya's fall: a 28-hectare archaeological park at Capo Boeo.
Museo archeologico Baglio Anselmi ★
The Capo Boeo museum in Marsala holds the only Punic warship to survive to our day.
Museo Whitaker ★
Motya island's museum, home to the Motya Charioteer and the Phoenician finds gathered by Joseph Whitaker.
Museo civico di Marsala
Marsala museum in the former San Pietro monastery: Lilybaeum archaeology, Garibaldian relics and Sicilian puppets.
Museo degli arazzi fiamminghi
Marsala museum with eight late sixteenth-century Flemish tapestries on the Jewish War, donated in 1589.
Nature and viewpoints
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Villa Cavallotti
Public garden of Marsala, laid out in 1895 over the moat of the San Francesco bastion.
Riserva naturale regionale delle Isole dello Stagnone di Marsala
Nature reserve of 1984 in the Stagnone lagoon, with Mozia, salt pans and rare flora.
Saline di Marsala
Salt pans of the Stagnone lagoon, with windmills and IGP Trapani sea salt.
Stagnone
Sicily's largest lagoon, with Mozia, the salt pans, the Nervi hangars and kitesurfing.
Castles, palaces and villas
2Porta Garibaldi
The 1685 Porta di Mare in Marsala, named for Garibaldi after the landing of the Thousand in 1860.
Castello di Marsala
Medieval castle of Norman origin in Marsala, strengthened in Swabian times, a prison until a few years ago.
Archaeology
1Mozia ★
Phoenician city on a Stagnone island, home to the famous Motya Charioteer in the Whitaker museum.
Squares, fountains and monuments
1Monumento ai Mille
2016 monument to the Garibaldians on Marsala's seafront, with the names of the 1089 Thousand and an info point.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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