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Alcamo, whose ancient Arabic name was "Manzil Alkamah", station of the fruits of lotus, is a great agricultural city not far from Castellammare del Golfo, in the heart of a wide luxuriant valley of vineyards whose product more important is the famous wine ALCAMO DOC.
Alcamo was inhabited from the late time of the bronze and chosen by Elimi, Roman and Byzantine for its strategic position and with the Arabs the country became hamlet and such it remained until 1340 when, in Norman epoch, it was inserted in a large one fee and it came building from the Peralta family the Castle that, with those ones of Salemi and Calatafimi, formed a fortified triangle to defend Palermo.
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