Vacanze sicilia, appartamenti

STORY

Castellammare born as Emporio Segesta (Segesta nearby port) until the arrival of the Arabs and its history is identical with that of the city elim.
It is assumed that the store already existed since at least the early fifth century BC.
Testimonies to this effect are derived both from the writings of Herodotus, or from those of Diodorus and Thucydides, who in connection with the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415 BC, often speaks of vessels going to or were Segesta.
With the arrival of the Arabs in early 800 the country is called Al Madarig ( "the staircase", a name that seems to derive from the stairway from the top of the bastion fortress led to the harbor).
Are the Arabs to realize the first nucleus of the castle later enlarged by the Normans.
The fortified building was built on a spur of rock overlooking the sea and connected to the mainland by a wooden drawbridge.
The beginning of the second millennium, Castellammare, becomes first major stronghold of the Normans, the Swabians, and then the center of battles between the Angevin and Aragonese.
In 1314 Robert of Anjou conquers Castellammare, whose garrison surrendered without resistance appears.
Are the Aragonese in 1316 with Bernardo from Sarria to seize the castle by destroying part of the fortifications and one of three towers.
The war ended with the victory of Frederick II and the port will be barred to commercial activities because of the betrayal in favor of the Angevin.
Castellammare will again grow after Vespers, when the town was baronial land owned by Frederick of Antioch and became important commercial center of the grain bound for export.
This period is the amplimento the castle by the sea.
In particular, January 10, 1338 that state ownership becomes directed barony under Ramon Peralta.
In 1554 the territory became a fief of Peter de Luna.
Castellammare until 1500 had a role with trade and service to the hinterland and the town was sparsely inhabited.
The original core around the castle was protected in 1521 by a first wall (the second city wall was completed in 1587 with 3 doors).
However, it should not have as much security to the town since the population increase was negligible throughout the century (in 1374 there were 413 inhabitants, 450 in 1526, 463 in 1595), almost to the request by James students, who had the barony in place, the Kingdom of Naples a licentia populandi.
License that had little effect since in 1630 there were 790 inhabitants.
In 1653 it will come to 1279 inhabitants.
Failure recovery is mainly due to the Saracen invasions.
Between the end of '500 and early '600 the country expands along the north-south.
In the second half of the sixteenth century is the church of Maria SS Annunziata, built a few meters from the beach of "Cala Marina" in 1590 and which was joined a Carmelite convent, now no longer exists.
The country at that time was inhabited mainly by sailors and officers to load and unload goods (especially grain produced in the hinterland).
In 1700 the country continues to expand always along the north-south but more irregular.
Rising importance of the loader drops marina compared to Petrolo set, this tufa on the high wall overlooking the sea seen so far the presence of several warehouses and mill Zangara.
Eventually del'700 and early 800 with the fragmentation of large estates and the development of intensive crops (especially vines) increases the demand for labor and the peasantry become more numerous and there is a considerable flow immigration: if in 1774 there were 3859 inhabitants, in 1798 there are about 6,000.
To population growth contributed to the fortification of the village around the castle.
So that in 1798 when the residents will be 6000 in the city will be able to identify three distinct morphological stages: the core of the castle, the walled city and the city outside the walls.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the country continues to widen, having as its economic development focus of the port.
The last decades of the nineteenth century are characterized by economic growth in 1901 is 20,605 residents. The port was equipped with permanent structures of berthing only in 1890 (year of construction of the platform), and only in 1907 at the end of the pier will be located three-ton crane.
Castellammare Today, thanks to a priceless heritage, consisting of extraordinary natural beauty of its coastline and its immediate hinterland, has rightly proposed as a major tourist attraction that much to offer to its visitors