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| Erice is
an Agricultural-commercial center and is situated
on an isolated height. Risen in the same place of
the ancient Erice, Elimi's religious center, famous
for the Venere Ericina's temple, it was contested
from Syracusans and Carthaginians until the Roman'
s conquest in 244 a.C. During the arabic invasion
it was called "Gebel Hamed" and got part
of its lost importance back nel XII sec. following
then the politic sorts of the island. Today we can
find many medioevals witness and parts of the ancient
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| In Erice
there are some remarkable monuments as "La Chiesa
Matrice" XIV sec. (its inside was remaked in
the last century), the medioeval castle (XII-XIII
sec.) with the temple's ruins and the "Palazzo
Municipale". Into the "Palazzo Municipale"
now there are a library and the "Cordici"
Museum with archeological reperts of the "Necropoli
ericina", with an Afrodite's head of the IV sec.
a.C. The "Processione dei Personaggi" is
very intresting and it's carries out every year for
the "Maria Santissima di Custonaci" festivity
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