The city of Trapani extends in the north-western part of Sicily.
It is a city of immense charm located between two seas and also known as the city ​​of salt and sailing. This name is mainly due to the fact that there are many salt pans in its territory. Its origins are rooted in the myth that tells of a scythe, “Sickle”, fell into the sea on Saturn (protector of the city) transformed into a spit of land. Drepanon also finds a place in Virgil's Aeneid which tells of this city as the place of Anchises' death and as a refuge for Aeneas after Dido's abandonment. The Elymians were the first inhabitants of the city but certain information is available from the Carthaginians onwards who arrived on the island between the 9th and 8th centuries. C. During the First Punic War it was in an important strategic position for these people who defeated the Romans who shortly after definitively conquered the city of Drepanum. Under the Romans the city became depopulated and experienced a very dark period, this thanks to the treatment the Romans gave him for having allied with Carthage.

After the Romans came the Vandals and then it was the turn of the Byzantines. In the 9th century AD. C. it was the turn of the Arabs, who called it Tarabanis who were succeeded by the Normans under whose rule the city had a strong development in trade and beyond. During the Middle Ages its port became one of the most important in the Mediterranean (it was part of the five most powerful sea cities). The importance of the city grew and after the Angevins and Aragonese its splendor was at its maximum. Only in the 17th century did it experience a period of decline due to various famines, plague and insurrections.
In the 1738, with the Bourbons, The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was born during which trade intensified and the real production of salt began.
In the 1860 Garibaldi arrives with his troops and Trapani and its province become part of the Kingdom of Italy. During the two world wars it was bombed and razed to the ground. After this crisis it was very difficult for the city to get back on its feet and only in the 1990s did it begin to establish itself as a destination of tourist interest, historical, cultural and sporting. Its immense historical, architectural and naturalistic heritage have given it international prominence today thanks also to the exhibitions on Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci.

The main tourist locations are: San Vito lo Capo, Pantelleria, the Egadi Islands, Erice and Castellamare del Golfo. The vast archaeological heritage with the sites of Selinunte is also worth it, Ercle mina, Segesta and the Cusa Caves.