Mozia's Road Traditional Cache
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On the island of Mozia, wonderful Phoenician city, very near to the submerged road...
This tiny island just off the coast north of Marsala was once the home of the Phoenician colony that was expelled in 379 BC and founded Lilibeo (Marsala). The island's role in the events of Sicily's early Phoenician period (before 600 BC) far transcended its diminutive size. The Phoenicians were a seafaring Semitic people from what is now Syria and Lebanon; they founded Carthage and other Mediterranean coastal communities, such as Motia. Therefore, it was only natural that Motia, and then Lilibeo, should side with Carthage in the wars against the Greeks. Ironically, the Greeks themselves owed much, including a great deal of their language and alphabet, to the early Phoenicians, despite their later political differences with the Carthaginians.
The island of Mozia, which is owned and operated by a foundation established by the winemaking Whitaker family has a remarkable museum and the ruins of an equally remarkable civilization, complete with a harbor and cemetery.
The cache is near the north gate, very close to the old phoenician road that long time ago connected the island with the coast. Now the road is submerged, but if the sea is clear you can see the path...
to reach the island go to
N 37 51.771
E 012° 29.079
and take the little ferryboat (mozialine) 3€.
You can park your car nearby
The access to the island (and the museum) is 6 € each, bit if you go very early in the mornig (about 8.00 am) and you are lucky, you should enter without fee! (the ticket office opens at 9 o'clock)
Additional Hints
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tb gb cbvag 5 (frr gur znc bs gur vfynaq ng gur zhfrhz), naq ybbx sbe n svt gerr... haqre fbzr fgbarf va gur ehvarq jnyy