City Walls & East Tower

While not a working winery, the island’s historic Grillo grape vines—maintained by Tasca d’Almerita—can be seen near the centre of the island. Interpretive signs explain cultivation methods and the unique terroir.

A sacred precinct near Porta Nord, used from Phoenician into Byzantine times for ritual offerings or ancestor cult.

The Northern gate complex features triple arches flanked by towers, and leads onto the stone-paved submerged causeway—a 1 km link to the mainland, once visible above water and now still detectable underwater.

Housed in the Palazzina Whitaker, this museum displays Phoenician–Punic finds from the island, including tomb stelae, ceramics, and the famous Motya Charioteer—a rare 5th‑century BC marble statue of Greek origin.

A domestic residence featuring a courtyard with intricate pebble mosaics, depicting geometric and hunting scenes typical of later Phoenician‑Greek influence.

V‑century BC aristocratic house including a small domestic shrine, destroyed and burnt during the 397 BC siege.