Church Stamps (chiesa madre), close to the door of Trapani, was buits in the XIVth century.

Erice is a tourist medieval village with about 29000 inhabitants, overhanging Trapani of 750 meters on the Eryx mount.

Erice was since antiquity an important center of the worship returned to the goddess of fruitfulness, initially as Astarté phenician, then Greek Aphrodite and finally as a Roman Venus.
The city was a long time a spiritual center, with  many churches, temples and convents. At the top of the mountain, are the remainders of the Venus castle built in XIIth by the Norman ones with the site of an old temple dedicated to Venus.