In the province of Trapani, on Mount Barbaro, it is an ancient and fascinating site: it is Segesta.

The fruit of the oldest Sicilian past, whose origins are lost in the mists of time.

Is unknown, in fact, the exact date of the founding of Segesta, the Greek sources ( Thucydides in the first place, the great Athenian historian of the V century BC ) point to the mysterious people of the Elimi, having originated from the fugitives Trojans.

It tells the myth that Segesta would be born by the will of the first king Aceste, son of refugee trojan Egesta and Crimiso river god.

Historically we know that the center was already inhabited in the IV century BC and it was often at war with Selinunte border disputes.

The city fell in the V century AC by the Vandals who destroyed it.

Then they settled Arabs and Normans, who built a castle then expanded by the Swabians, the real heart of the medieval village.

Almost lost from memory as long as the great historian Fazello identified the site bringing it back to the lights of knowledge.