Sicily, Italy · Europe
Vita is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Salemi, 25km from Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve.
Vita is in Sicily, Italy, with about 2,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Salemi, about 6 km away.
Vita is a town and comune in inland south-western Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Trapani. It is the smallest municipality area of the province of Trapani at about 8.88 square kilometres (3.43 mi2). It is also characterized by the second highest elevation in the province, after Erice.
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was founded in the early 17th century, under the Spaniards, by a noble from Calatafimi, Vito Sicomo. The birth of the township was then ratified by King Philip III of Spain on March 11, 1607.
In 1860, the town gave its full support to the Mille led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. In the early 20th century, the city reached its highest population, with c. 6,000 inhabitants. More recently, its inhabitants have slowly left the town in order to move towards Northern Italy and foreign countries, with possibly its largest emigrant community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Vita was heavily damaged by the 1968 Belice earthquake, and rebuilt in a new urban zone, close to the old one.
The derivation of the name is uncertain: it is possibly associated with the founder's name, but might either be of Arab origin (there is a town named Vita in Algeria too), or even somehow associated with the same Italian word, which means life.
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Within an hour or so of Vita: Tonnara di Scopello (23 km), Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve (25 km), Erice (28 km), San Vito Lo Capo (35 km).
The nearest famous roads are Targa Florio Circuit (Madonie).
Vita is in Sicily, Italy, about 6 km from Salemi.
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ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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Ancient tuna fishery on a cove guarded by faraglioni sea stacks and crumbling watchtowers, in use from the 13th century until the 1980s. The anchor-strewn terraces above gin-clear water are one of Sicily's most painted and filmed corners.
23 km · about 25 min drive
national park
Sicily's first nature reserve, a wild coastal path linking pebbly coves of crystal water near San Vito.
25 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A misty medieval hilltop town above Trapani, reached by cable car or hairpin road with sweeping coast views.
28 km · about 30 min drive
beach
Arc of white sand and shallow turquoise water beneath the bare pyramid of Monte Monaco, at the end of a dead-end road past the Zingaro reserve. Hosts the Cous Cous Fest each September: a legacy of Sicily's Arab kitchen.
35 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
A Norman cathedral above Palermo blazing with golden Byzantine mosaics, among Europe's greatest.
47 km · about 55 min drive
castle
The oldest royal residence in Europe, housing Palermo's Palatine Chapel with its extraordinary gold-ground Byzantine mosaics.
53 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
A stylistic kaleidoscope of Arab-Norman, Gothic and Baroque dominating Sicily's vibrant capital.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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