Castellammare is born as Emporium Segestanorum (I bring of the near Segesta) and up to the arrival of the Arabs its history is identified with that of the city elima. You hypothesizes that the emporium already existed to depart at least from the beginnings of the V century B.C. Testimonies in such sense are drawn both from the writings of Erodoto and from those of Diodoro Siculo and of Tucidide, that speaking of the Athenian consignment in 415 Sicily B.C., more times he/she speaks of ships that went or they came from Segesta. To make explicit reference to the I bring segestano they are however Strabone and the geographer Tolomeo, that nevertheless from a wrong position of the site, perhaps for a mere material error in the transmission of the text.

To Castellammare of the Gulf the Thermal baths Segestanes are found in the place Bridge you Bathe. Its waters are ipertermali and they gush out to a temperature of around 44° Cs. In the thermal establishment we find two swimming pools of which one for children, and the cave dictates some queen a real natural sauna.Among the numerous practiced treatments to the thermal baths Segestane, remembers the bagnoterapia, muds, caves, massages, idromassaggi, aerosol, inhalations and irrigations. They take care of besides the pathologies dermatologiche, of the motor and respiratory apparatus.

Religious Tourism

- Patron Saints and Patron Saint Days of Catellamare de Golfo: Madonna del soccorso on august 21.



Proposed of excursion of the city of Scopello: It visits to the faraglionis, the Gypsy's Reserve, standstill in the typical country, where the typical bread cunzatu (4 hours around) can be tasted.

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