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Italy : Sicilia

3.5 km (2.2 miles) ENE of Alcamo, Trapani, Sicilia, Italy
Approx. altitude: 182 m (597 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 38°S 167°W

Quality: good

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#2: Looking North #3: Looking South #4: Looking West #5: GPS #6: Flipflops on the ground #7: Grapes! #8: Happy birthday to the lovely confluencer #9: Ruins near the CP #10: Memorial #11: Ruins near the CP #12: Ruins near the CP

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#1: Looking East

(visited by Peter Cao)

30-Jun-2026 -- This is the second confluence on my wife's birthday trip. We were headed back to the airport to head to Tunis when she fell asleep in the car and I routed us to this CP, which lies about 30 minutes SW of PMO, the Palermo Airport.

Google satellite images showed a road leading to within a 100 meters of the CP, but failed to show the condition of the road. We passed a few ruinous buildings with a least one inhabited residence.

It was a rough dirt track past some ruins to a simple plastic tube gate across the road. Though I harbored a bit of reluctance, it was easy to open the gate and continue another few hundred meters by car to a freshly plowed field. By this point Misha woke up and was none to pleased to learn that we made an unexpected detour. But the CP was just a 3-minute walk along a hedge row of prickly pear cactus. A break in the fence allowed easy access directly to the CP and we were able to immediately zero in on the coordinates.

Cactus to the right, grapes to the left.

CP Named: Grapes and cactus


 All pictures
#1: Looking East
#2: Looking North
#3: Looking South
#4: Looking West
#5: GPS
#6: Flipflops on the ground
#7: Grapes!
#8: Happy birthday to the lovely confluencer
#9: Ruins near the CP
#10: Memorial
#11: Ruins near the CP
#12: Ruins near the CP
ALL: All pictures on one page