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Scopello is perhaps the most suggestive and picturesque place of the whole gulf of Castellamare. And' a small suburb risen toward the end of the seven hundred one around the beam, on the site of a precedent Arabic channel. In low, in the stupendous cove limited by the sea stack and protected from old towers of sighting, the tonnara is found, known for a long time immemorial (it is quoted in documents of the 1200) and active up to few years back, with the beam, the buildings and the stores.
It comes you from Castellamare crossing the government 187 for Trapani, taking the deviation to the km 32.4, passing in front of the bay of Guidaloca on which a sixteenth-century cylindrical tower is risen. The name Scopello would derive from the Greek "scopelos" (rock-cliff), from the Latin "scopellum" (rock-cliff) and from the Arab "iscubul iactus" (rock-cliff).
The towers damage to the landscape a halo of mystery and a charm that it mixes together nature and history. They go up again to different epochs and they made part of a system of defense and communication distributed along the whole perimeter of Sicily: communicating through at night among them fires and in the daytime with smoke, it could be informed in little time the whole island of any news of military character. The most ancient, probably built by the Arabs to protection of the tonnara, it is that that is risen once on the sea stack connected to the dry land, to which was perhaps entered with a bridge or with a staircase carved in the same rock.
The tower Doria, from the name of the Spanish noble that made it build on the balcony that leans out to precipice on the bay, it goes up again to the XVII century.
Another, the tower Bennistra, is that built in the XV century on a summit to south of the beam and that it dominates from her exceptional point of observation the whole gulf of Castellamare.
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