The town - Campobello di Mazara
The town of Campobello di Mazara rises on a pleasant level area.
It is a mainly rural centre. Olive is grown on spacious lands of its territory.
To be seen - The most ancient inhabited nucleus date back to XV century. One of the most important monuments is the Church of Santissima Maria delle Grazie of the end of 1500. The church, aisleless, has four internal chapels, in one of them is kept an interesting crucifix.
To be tasted - First of all, a particular mention is needed to the Nocellara of Belice: a first-rate quality olive perfectly suitable either to oil production or to the consumer. Then you can not go away without having tested the brown bread that comes out of a special synthesis of two kind of corn grown in the Castelvetrano and Campobello di Mazara areas. Once it was also practiced the tuna fishing. Up to now, in summertime, it is practiced the lampara fishing to cuttlefishes and polyps.
The Cusa quarries - Not far from the town are situated the Cusa quarries, the natural quarries from which the Selinunte people obtained the material by means of they built their magnificent town. The demands of tuff from Selinunte were always remarkable and here work was continuous and hard. The production was stopped when Carthaginians destroyed Selinunte.
The beaches - In the neighbourhood of the town, there are two holyday localities: Tre Fontane and Torretta Granitola. The last, because of its natural innless, knew a flourishing fishing activity that unfortunately has found more and more difficult to survive in time.
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