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at that time: they also planted several trees and flowers, placing a rounded pond. The next year there was a flood which provoked a landslide, but only in 1946 they consolidated the square, in order to protect the front houses too. During this phase they made the
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From Piazza Bagolino, also called Belvedere, you can enjoy one of the most picturesque landscapes of the sweet hills of Alcamo countryside, with the geometrical lines drawn by rows of vineyards, olive trees and characteristic
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there is the garden entitled to Bagolino, with some imposing trees; opposite to it there is the entrance of Parco suburbano San Francesco, rich with different plants typical of the Mediterranean flora.
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Piazza Bagolino is located on the east side of the town; there is the widest car park: you can leave your car here, either in the square or in the underground car-park that was realized in 2012.
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Discorso storico della opulenta città di Alcamo situata a piè del Monte Bonifato e dell'antichissima cittù di Longarico; trascrizione del manoscritto originale e realizzazione di Lorenzo Asta
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As people used the area for a dumping ground, it was necessary a work of consolidation and settling in order to avoid landslides: it was made according to the project of the engineer
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Together with Piazza Ciullo and Piazza della Repubblica, it is one of the largest squares in Alcamo leading into Corso 6 Aprile; here you can admire two magnificent
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of Piazza Bagolino. It has an area of about 12,000 square metres; it is a wonderful garden with very different types of plants and tree, typical of the
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As soon as you enter it, on the right you can see the tree in memory of the two carabinieris killed on 27 January 1976 in the
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and placed some benches, while on the west side (after Palazzo Mistretta-Galati) they placed the bust of the famous poet
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The place is not properly enlighted, but actually the strong point is its belvedere: on 21 June, during the feast of
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Vincenzo Regina, Ottocento alcamese: storia e arte; Accademia di studi Cielo D'Alcamo;, Trapani, Cartograf, 1977.
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Finally, in 2012, the square was restored again, in the present form, by the municipal administration led by the
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From Piazza Bagolino you can enter Corso 6 Aprile and, in few minutes, reach the town centre on foot.
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Pietro Maria Rocca, Delle muraglie e porte della città di Alcamo, Palermo, Tipografia Lo Statuto, 1894
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In 1930 they realized the walls of the bastion and restored and fenced the small garden, called Villa
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realized by Giuseppe Bambina, a sculptor from Alcamo; another bust, representing the scientist
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Roberto Calia, I palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese, Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997.
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At the beginning of the 17th century there was only a small flat area called
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Ottocento alcamese: storia e arte; Accademia di studi Cielo D'Alcamo;
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and reinforcement works, realized the staircase leading to
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I palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese
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View of Piazza Bagolino
Parco suburbano San Francesco
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
Alcamo
Italy
37°58′53″N 12°58′09″E / 37.981473°N 12.969136°E / 37.981473; 12.969136
Alcamo
province of Trapani


Calcarenite
calfskins
Margherita of Savoy
drainage
Parco suburbano San Francesco
travertine
parapet
Gulf of Castellammare
Sebastiano Bagolino
Girolamo Caruso
Lord Mayor

bas-riliefs
Nicola Rubino
Cielo d'Alcamo
Frederick II
Ludovico Corrao
Madonna of Miracles
Mediterranean
macchia

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