Castle of Venus
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Castle of Venus (Italian: Castello di Venere) is a medieval fortress in Erice, built around the site of an ancient Temple of Venus Erycina at the summit of Monte Erice in western Sicily.
It stands on an isolated rocky outcrop at the south-eastern edge of the summit plateau of the mountain, separated from the town by a rock-cut ditch and overlooking the surrounding countryside and the Tyrrhenian coastline.
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