Mothia Island and Whitaker Museum

Mothia Island and Whitaker Museum

MOTHIA (18 Km far from Trapani)

The coast that leads from Trapani to Marsala offers an amazing spectacle. Forty hectares of history suspended in the sea, along the island Longa, to that of S. Mary and Scola, where there's the former STAGNONE ISLANDS, the largest lagoon in Sicily, one the most important "wetland" in Europe.

PHOENICIAN-PUNICO site of the largest of the Mediterranean, the island became a site for its strategic proximity to the powerful Carthage. Mothia historical position dates to the eighth century around a. C. The Giovinetto of Mothia dates the fifth century BC which is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years.