Places of the Myth of Ulysses: Rock of the Ligny Tower

The site is part of the Places of the Myth of Ulysses entered in the Register of the Region of Sicily LIM (Places of heroes and heroic legends)

Places indicated in the IWB register 

• Mouth of the Aci River, Port of S. Maria La Scala
• Faraglioni, Archipelago of the Cyclops
• Aeolian Islands, Aeolian Archipelago
• Scilla and Cariddi, Strait of Messina
• Polyphemus cave (Milazzo)
• Port of Ulysses (Ispica)
• Grotto of Sataria (Pantelleria)
• Rock of the Ligny Tower

Rock of the Ligny Tower

According to tradition, the rock called the "malcosiglio" has the shape of an elongated boat because it would be the boat of Ulysses that was turned into stone on the return to Scheria that some hypotheses make correspond with Trapani (Samuel Butler: The Authorres of the Odyssey - book written in 1897) 

Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero

Photo: web

Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Region of Sicily

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