| The town - Petrosino
Petrosino is a small town between Marsala and Mazara del Vallo. The village rises on a level area opening on to the sea and that crowds principally in summertime, when the beaches of Torrazza, Biscione e Sibilana fill with holiday-makers. The economy of the area is essentially based on summer tourism and on wine production. Near to the sea you will see to rise the Torre Sibiliana (Sibiliana Tower), a quadrangular shaped coast tower used, in the past, either to facilitate the operations of fishing or to defend themselves from piratical assaults. In the main square is located Maria S.S. delle Grazie (Most Holy Mary of the Graces), a Latin cross plan church built in the half of 1700. From the end of 1700 onwards, the ever-growing international importance of the Marsala wine and the trades associated to it contributed not a little to the growth of the area. Typical are the Bagli that the landowners built for the course of agricultural activities. Each of them was supplied with big courtyards, a owner's house and numerous storehouses of various utilization. Among the most remarkable: the Baglio Spano’, the Baglio Basile and the Baglio Don Federico. Since 1980, it stopped to be an hamlet of Marsala and became autonomous commune.
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