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Extract from the rice and Segesta Travel Guides:
The nearest and most exhilarating ride from Trpani is to
RICE
, forty minutes away by bus. It's a mountain town with powerful associations: creeping hillside alleys, stone buildings and silent charm. Founded by Elymnians, who claimed descent from the Trojans, the original city was known to the ancient world as Eryx, and a magnificent temple, dedicated to Venus Erycina, Mediterranean goddess of fertility, once topped the mountain. Though the city was considered impregnable, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab and Norman forces all forced entry over the centuries. But all respected the sanctity of rice: the Romans rebuilt the temple and set 200 sol...
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