Information
The Ettore Majorana Center is located in Erice, a small town with over 3,000 years of history, nestled in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea and thus conquered and inhabited by various peoples, including the Punic/Phoenician and Trojan populations.
General Information on the Center and the Location
This unique and magnificent historic stone village may present some unusual aspects to modern visitors, so it's important to familiarize with the town and the meeting location.
Accommodation and Facilities
Speakers and partecipants are housed in the dormitory of the old monasteries (San Francesco, San Domenico, San Rocco).
Other Useful Information
Being at the Ettore Majorana Center effectively means living immersed in the small center of Erice, far from large urban centers, and it is important to be aware of its potential limitations in order to prevent them.
Getting to Erice
Erice is located at the top of Mount Erice (Monte Erice) at approximately 750 to 800 meters (around 2,500 feet) above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani and the Tyrrhenian Sea below. It can be reached via a winding road or a 10-minute cable car ride (funivia) from the city of Trapani at the base.
About the Ettore Majorana Centre
The Ettore Majorana Foundation and International Centre for Scientific Culture is named after an outstanding Italian physicist, born in Sicily in 1906. Every year the Centre of Erice hosts several workshops covering different scientific disciplines (e.g. physics, medicine, chemistry, life sciences etc.) for hundreds of scientists participating. It was founded 64 years ago. Since then, this centre has represented an important meeting place for scientists from all over the world.
About Erice
According to a legend, Erice, son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small town on top of a mountain (750 metres above sea level) more than three thousand years ago. The founder of modern history-i.e. the recording of events in a methodic and chronological sequence as they really happened without reference to mythical causes - the great Thucydides (500 B.C.), writing about events connected with the conquest of Troy (1183 B.C.) said: