Global InformationArchaeological site of Mount Bonifato information
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 the site with excavations | |
  Shown within Italy | |
| Location | Alcamo, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
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| Coordinates | 37°57′26″N 12°57′50″E / 37.9572°N 12.9639°E |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1996-2014 |
| Condition | Preserved |
| Ownership | Public |
| Management | Municipality of Alcamo |
| Public access | yes |
The Archaeological site of Mount Bonifato is located in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, in Sicily.
According to Licofrone of Alexandria, an unknown scholar who set up the library of Alexandria in the third century B.C., there was a village called Longuro on Mount Bonifato of Alcamo in ancient times. This settlement had been founded by a colony of Greeks who had escaped from Troy.[1]
The archeological site was probably inhabited from the 7th century B.C. to the 12th century A.D. Longuro was also the name of Mount Bonifato, which – according to some other scholars - was also named "Aereo" and "Longarico" (the Latin name for Longuro).
During the Roman period, the inhabitants moved to the slopes of the mount, so that they could devote themselves to farming.
- ^ Orlandi, Cesare (1770). 'Alcamo, citta della Sicilia nella valle di Mazara', in Delle città d'Italia e sue isole adjacenti compendiose notizie, 5 volumes (Stamperia Augusta, Presso Mario Riginaldi, Perugia 1770-1774, con licenza dei superiori), I, p. 203 ff.