SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF TRAPANI

The devotion to Our Lady of Trapani is without doubt one of the main city caratteristichedella stride. The history of the wonderful work statuary is definitely a stud of the history of Trapani, in general, as both the religious and cultural point of view, many events are tied to it. Not to mention the calendar in August, which sees the highest peak of devotion on the part of Trapani but also of great people from the surrounding cities. The story of the arrival of the statue in the city, sees several conflicting versions of each other, beginning with the sculptor. Proof of this, many books, paintings and engravings. In fact it is well known that many books have since been lost also because of the various plagues that have hit the city. Beyond the different historical versions of the Madonna di Trapani remains a point of reference for the entire city. The original statue is kept and venerated in the basilica of the same name in Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, which comes out in a procession from 1954, date last transportation center. Until 2007, was carried in procession with a copy kept in the Cathedral, with a landing on August 13 of each year, and the procession of 16. Then, again last year, we created another copy in marble that is closest to the original statue, and this year will be carried in procession. While the copy carried on the shoulders until last year, has been moved to the Carmelite church in Via Libertà. In 2009 it was decided to bring out again the wooden statue that only for 2008 has not been carried in procession. The Madonna of Trapani is copatrona the city of St. Albert with Abban, whose statue-reliquary in silver, is preserved in the basilica of Our Lady of Trapani, and usually is carried into the cathedral on August 6 each year, carried in procession the streets of downtown on August 7 (the feast of St. Albert), and then return to the Basilica of Our Lady of Trapani on the 9th.

REGIONAL MUSEUM PEPOLI

The museum is the fourteenth-century former convent of the Carmelites, extensively remodeled in the sixteenth and the eighteenth century. It is contiguous to the important SS.ma Shrine of the Annunciation, where it is preserved and venerated the marble statue of the Madonna di Trapani ", by unanimously attributed to Nino Pisano (mid-century. XIV approx.). The museum shows, along with collections of paintings and sculpture, the performance of the visual arts in the territory of Trapani, with particular reference to the decorative and applied arts, in which stands the city of Trapani 'especially with regard to works in the field of coral, the majolica, gold, silver and sculpture of the Nativity. Collections. The core of the collection consists of the private collections of Count Agostino Pepoli the early twentieth century was the promoter of the institution. To these were added to other works from the suppressed religious corporations of the city, and by the art gallery Fardelliana, consisting mainly of paintings of the Neapolitan school, that the General had given to GB Fardella hometown. The original group was later enriched by legacies, donations and deposits with other collections of antiquities and applied arts, including deserve to be remembered as the Earl of Erice and of Sera Hernandez Pepoli.

CABLEWAY TRAPANI-ERICE

Through the valley station located in Santa Casa (Erice) 's system connects the city of Trapani to Erice, along a path of 3099 meters, which is copied from the old cable car built in the late '50s but abandoned for over thirty years. L 'system consists of a cable car auto monocable, in which the 8-seater vehicles are automatically attached to the rope-pull, loop and closed with a continuous motion in one direction. 
'S system includes the following stations:

Contact telephone station upstream / downstream station

0923 869720 / 0923 569306

Valley station 
Fax: 0923 560023 
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Mountain station 
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Administrative Office 
Via Ignazio Poma, No.2 
91016 Erice Casa Santa 
Tel / Fax 0923502821 
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