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(SLO; 092 371 25 93; Via Garraffa 60; meals €25-35; closed Tue; )
With roots as a wedding ca-
tering business, this stylish eatery opened to universal acclaim in 2012. It's a class act all
around - from the ever-changing menu of market-fresh seafood scrawled daily on the
blackboard to the interior's sleek modern lines to the gorgeous presentation of the food.
The stellar wine list features some local choices you won't find elsewhere.
Il Gallo e l'Innamorata
( 092 3195 4446;
www.osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com
;
Via Bilardello 18; meals €25-30; closed Tue)
Warm
orange walls and arched stone doorways lend an artsy, convivial atmosphere to this Slow
Food-acclaimed eatery. The à la carte menu is short and sweet, featuring a few well-
chosen dishes each day, including the classic
scaloppine al Marsala
(veal cooked with
Marsala wine and lemon).
SICILIAN
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Information
Tourist office
( 092 399 33 38, 092 371 40 97;
ufficioturistico.proloco@comune.marsala.tp.it
;
Via XI Maggio 100;
8.30am-1.30pm & 3-8pm Mon-Sat)
Spacious office with comfy couches right off the main
square; provides a wide range of maps and brochures.
Getting There & Away
hours, one to three daily); and
Salemi
(
092 398 11 20;
www.autoservizisalemi.it
)
to Palermo
(€9.20, 2½ hours, at least nine daily).
The train is the best way to get to Trapani (€3.45, 30 minutes, 10 daily, five on Sunday).
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Selinunte
The ruins of Selinunte are the most impressively sited in Sicily. The huge city was built in
628 BC on a promontory overlooking the sea, and over two and a half centuries became
one of the richest and most powerful in the world. It was destroyed by the Carthaginians
in 409 BC and finally fell to the Romans in about 350 BC, at which time it went into rapid
decline and disappeared from historical accounts.
The city's past is so remote that the names of the various temples have been forgotten
and they are now identified by the letters A to G, M and O. The most impressive,
Temple E
,
