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Trapani, in brief.

Salt pans, Egadi Islands ferry port.

A port city on a curving spit at Sicily's western tip, the ferry gateway to the Egadi Islands.

Salt has been worked here for centuries, and the salt pans south of the city, dotted with old windmills, turn rose and copper at sunset.

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