Alcamo - silk Alcamo is an ancient town founded by the Arabs, close to Segesta with its famous temple, and inland from the bay of Castellammare; during the 18th century its buildings were embellished with some of the most surprising masterpieces of the Sicilian Baroque, a triumph of the decorative imagination crowning at least two centuries of artistic fervour.

Title: Alcamo - silk Pages: 84 Tables: 72 Author: Mariano Coppola, Vincenzo Regina Edition: Italian, English Year: 1991 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Dimensions: (cm) 30x30 Rilegato: Silk Photos by: Luigino Visconti (Genova) Iconographia: Photographs of Alcamo Paper: Gardamatt, white Printer: Grafiche Mazzucchelli