Mozia
Mozia is an island in the Stagnone Lagoon, off the west coast of Sicily between Marsala and Trapani. A remarkable site of Phoenician ruins, the island preserves traces of a once-thriving settlement—stone roads, defensive walls, temples, and homes—making it one of the most evocative ancient landscapes in the western Mediterranean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Phoenician and later Greek island city
- Also known as: “Motya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isola La Scuola and San Pantaleo.
Museo Archeologico Giuseppe Whitaker
Museum
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Museo Archeologico Giuseppe Whitaker is a museum.
Mozia
- Categories: Ancient Greek archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Marsala, Trapani, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Mozia” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μοτύη, Μοτύα”
- Arabic: “معطية”
- Arabic: “موتيا”
- Basque: “Motia”
- Bulgarian: “Мотия”
- Catalan: “Mòtia”
- Chinese: “摩塔亚”
- Chinese: “莫特亚”
- Chinese: “莫特亞”
- Chinese: “莫齐亚”
- Danish: “Mozia”
- Dutch: “Motya”
- Dutch: “Mozia”
- Esperanto: “Motja”
- Finnish: “Mozia”
- French: “Motyé”
- Galician: “Mozia”
- German: “Mozia”
- Greek: “Μοτύα”
- Greek: “Μοτύη”
- Hebrew: “מטוא”
- Hungarian: “Mothia”
- Hungarian: “Motya”
- Hungarian: “Mozia”
- Italian: “Mozia”
- Japanese: “モーチャ”
- Japanese: “モティア”
- Lithuanian: “Motja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mozia”
- Norwegian: “Mozia”
- Persian: “موتیا”
- Polish: “Motja”
- Polish: “Motya”
- Polish: “Motye”
- Portuguese: “Mócia”
- Portuguese: “Motia”
- Romanian: “Mozia”
- Russian: “Мотия”
- Serbian: “Мотија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Motija”
- Sicilian: “Mozzia”
- Spanish: “Motia”
- Swedish: “Motya”
- Turkish: “Mozia”
- Ukrainian: “Мотія”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mozia”. Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.