Marsala Sicily Italy
Italy

4 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Lindblad Expeditions (4 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

In the basin adjoining the old town. Only smaller vessels berth here: from the mole, a few minutes' walk reaches the first streets of the baroque centre.
For its wine. In 1773 the English merchant John Woodhouse shipped a few casks of a local wine fortified with brandy so it would survive the voyage to Liverpool. England took to the drink, and the town's name travelled the world.
Yes. The great houses line their cellars along the coast and several are open: vaulted cellars where the casks sleep, guided tastings revealing the range of marsala, from dry served chilled to long-aged amber. In town, wine bars offer a quicker introduction.
A unique piece: the wreck of a Carthaginian warship sunk during the First Punic War, found offshore in the 1970s. The wooden ribs, astonishingly preserved, tell of the naval battles fought in these waters more than two thousand years ago.
The centre on foot: piazza della Repubblica with its loggia senatorial palace and mother church, the Garibaldi gate, the Baglio Anselmi museum and the Lilybaeum archaeological park. Then a wine cellar, or the Stagnone salt pans to the north.
A lagoon north of the town: chequerboard salt pans, restored windmills and mountains of salt turning pink at sunset. Kitesurfers' sails now streak these flat waters, the new face of a site worked since antiquity.
A small boat crosses the shallow waters of the Stagnone in a few minutes. Mozia is a former Phoenician trading post whose museum holds a world-famous marble statue, the Youth of Mozia. The outing combines archaeology and landscape, a handful of kilometres from the quays.
It was from this shore that Giuseppe Garibaldi landed on 11 May 1860 with his thousand redshirts, the first act of Italian unification. The gate bearing his name guards the town's southern entrance and reminds passers-by of the event.
The euro and Italian, with Sicilian. English is spoken in the wine cellars that receive visitors, less elsewhere. Keep cash for the boats to Mozia and shops in the centre.
In the off season, when they take over the Stagnone salt pans. In high season it is kitesurfers who occupy the water: two very different faces of the same site depending on the month of the call.