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Extract from the Marsala and Mazara del Vallo Travel Guides:
Another section of the western rail loop runs
south from Trpani
down the coast, pretty much within sight of the sea all the way, trains ploughing across the cultivated plain, past white, squat houses and distant burned hills. The region flaunts its tangible non-Greek heritage even more in
MARSALA
, 10km on, which takes its name from the Arabic Marsah-el-Allah, the port of Allah. Once the main Saracenic base in Sicily, since the late eighteenth century Marsala has been better known for the dessert wine that carries its name, something every bar and restaurant will sell you.
The centre of Marsala is... read the whole Marsala and Mazara del Vallo Travel Guides...
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