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Where
we are:
Forty kilometres from Palermo, in the heart of the Gulf of Castellammare
(Trapani), Trappeto (see "How to arrive" ) is a corner of paradise
immersed in a scenery of natural beauty, a fertile land of thriving
greenery in the middle of a very suggestive historical itinerary,
wet by the splendid colours of the sea. Set up in the forest called
Parthenia by Federico II of Aragona during the XIV century, Trappeto
has changed little by little into a territory rich in vineyards
and citrus orchards that overlooks the sea, ploughed in the past
by sailing ships loaded of sugar and wine and nowadays sailed
by boats full of tourists and vacationers.
The name " Trappetum Cannamelarum " was born together with the
first factory (1480) that dealt with the extraction and the refining
of sugar canes and a fortified tower like those that still exist
in different styles built by the people such as Arabs, Normans,
Christians, Moors etc. The first homes of the suburb were most
of all fishermen homes, built around the Church of Our Lady of
the Annunciation (1680).
 Trappeto
was inhabited by farmers and fishermen that mingled together the
sweetness of nature's products and the disappointments of a life
of hardship and emigration in a Sicily oppressed by the Mafia.
After World War II, Trappeto became a symbol of total poverty,
touching the most sensitive hearts of Italy and Europe, thanks
to Danilo Dolci's work and the running of the Centre for studies
"Borgo di Dio " (1968), located on the promontory of the town,
which diffused the cultural and humane treasures of these Sicilians.
 Since
then, a wonderful revival that caused a rupture with the past
began thanks to the same residents of Trappeto that were inspired
by a renewed faith and an inexhaustible need for humanization
and justice, towards a destiny of inexorable progress. Trappeto
is nowadays a chosen destination by an enthusiast and loyal tourism
that can find thousands of pleasant occasions to relax and social
life in a town immersed in open spaces with many flower - beds
and multicoloured fishermen homes decorated by murals.
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