Only few yards from the mainland, along the provincial road Trapani to Marsala, you can see, through the saltworks and the windmills, the quiet small - 3 x 5 km - magnificent island of Mozia, populated by the Phoenicians as one of their main "stations" along the commercial navigation from Lebanon, their native country, up to Cornwall and back. They used to bring precious metals to the lazy Egyptians and became so rich that Mozia inhabitants were able to beat their own coins, visible in the Museum ……

 MOZIA

On the low right you reach the small dock by boat (shallow water), and move soon to the nearby Museum, once the villa built by Mr Joseph Whitaker, a british gentleman (his statue in front of the building) who started the excavations. Walking clockwise, amongst the few acres grabbed through vinyards and flowers, you can visit the south gate with the cothon (a repair basin), the old cemetery, the new cemetery, the industrial area where the statue (see below) was discovered in the early 80's by Dr Gioacchino Falsone and his crew, and the North Gate.

Gioacchino uses to entertain us the evening before the visit to the island.

A stele put in front of the funerary urns. Some oriental (egyptian) influence is evident.

Simple containers for the ashes in the middle of more refined, escavated in the sandstone blocks

Glass manifacture was one of the prides for Phoenicians.

 The important statue being still discussed as far as its origin and significance in a non greek site.