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Castelllammare del Golfo (Casteddammari in Sicilian) is an Italian Municipality comprising 15.280 inhabitants in the province of Trapani in Sicily. Its economy is based on tourism and, less than in the past, on viticulture (vine growing) and fishing. Every two years it celebrates the historical reenactment of the attack at its port by the English, thwarted, according to legend, by the arrival of the Madonna of           (the Virgin Mary of Rescue). The town rises from the bottom of the slope of the mountainous complex of Mount Inici and its name is given to the gulf in front of the Castle, delimitated to the east by Cape Rama and to the west by Cape San Vito.

HISTORY Castellammare originates as the Emporium Segestanorum (port of the nearby Segesta) and up till the arrival of the Arabs its history identifies itself with that of the Elymian city. It is assumed that the Emporium already existed at least from the beginning of the V century B.C. Evidence of this derives from Herodotus` scripts and also those of Diodorus (Diodoro Siculo) and Thucydides, that concerning the Athenian expedition in Sicily in 415 B.C., on several occasions there is evidence of ships going to or leaving Segesta. Though it is Strabo and the geographer Ptolemy who explicitly refer to the port of Segesta, the later however gives an erroneous location of the site, maybe because of a mere material error in the transmission of the text.