An amphitheatre by the sea
Stunning, wild coastal stretches, beautiful inlets creep into the Gulf of Castellammare, where the town rises, sloping down from the mountain towards the sea, to the peninsula where the castle stands. According to historians, Castellammare’s story is linked to Segesta. The old Emporium Segestanorum, renamed Madarig (the stairway) by the Arabs, became a stronghold with the Saracens, and was later named Castello a Mare by the Normans, precisely because of the fortress.