Spanish District of Erice
The Spanish Quarter is a mighty unfinished construction, begun in the 18th century to house a garrison of Spanish soldiers but never completed.
The building stands on a large rocky esplanade, outside the walls, near the churches of Sant'Orsola and Sant'Antonio.
The Spanish Quarter of Erice offers a spectacle of unusual beauty on the territory and above all on the sea: the eye can range from the Sicilian channel to the Tyrrhenian Sea, catching the whole its beauty the coastal part between Mount Cofano and the Bonagia trap.
Today the Spanish Quarter is home to the ethno-anthropological section of the Antonio Cordici Museum Complex , it hosts three exhibitions: Arts and crafts of the past, a path on rural life, tools and objects of the past life; Erice, land of the sea, a multimedia museum on slaughtering; Erice handicraft, centered on carpets and one on ceramics.
