Marsala, the name of a city and a wine inextricably linked by so much history.
Marsala, a city-territory made of municipalities and rural areas, welcomes you with its ancient culture.
Marsala, a wine born almost by chance, first known as an English wine and then becoming famous worldwide with the name of the city that produces it. In short, an inseparable pairing: Marsala city-region and Marsala wine.
Marsala, a seaside town that has yielded Punic wrecks , Phoenician artefacts , and Roman ships , and then… a town of cultivated land by skilled farmers who, following in the footsteps of English entrepreneurs, changed the face of these west-facing lands by implementing their vine-growing techniques, a tradition that has always been present in this corner of Sicily.
Marsala, the city of wind, which yesterday, in communion with the sea, allowed the spread of barrel-produced wine to many towns, and which today allows the city to be the undisputed capital of windsurfing, practiced almost all year round in the waters of the Stagnone lagoon overlooking the historic Grillo grape vineyards and the salt pans with their unique sunsets .
Marsala, city of tuff quarries, typical construction material for houses and cellars and then a thousand other faces because finally Marsala is the city of ” Garibaldi’s Thousand ” to whom a type of Marsala wine called “ Garibaldi Dolce ” (GD) was dedicated after having appreciated him during his second visit to the city in 1862 when from a balcony of the Grignani palace in Porta Nuova he thundered “ O Roma o Morte ”.
