In 1998 the nets of a Mazara trawler pulled up a masterpiece: the Dancing Satyr, a Greek bronze that has pirouetted for two millennia and now fills the museum devoted to it. It is the perfect symbol of Mazara: a deep-sea town with one of Italy's most important fishing fleets and the red prawn as its gastronomic banner.
In the kasbah — the Arab quarter of lanes and ceramics, home today to a deep-rooted Tunisian community — the Mediterranean of minglings has been daily reality for a thousand years. The Norman seafront and the local couscous close the tale.
Near Mazara del Vallo
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
