This is the place I spoke of, 3,000 feet high, NW Sicily near Trapani, where we spent time exploring. Four of us stayed in the only hotel we could find, and were actually served eggs for breakfast. Pic is from Google map.
"Superficially, it is the epitome of the Middle Ages, beginning with the castles, walls and stone streets. In reality, it's much older. This singular city, located on a mountain overlooking the Tyrrhenian coast of western Sicily, was ancient Eryx, a prosperous Elymian and Carthaginian city, boasting a well-known temple to a Phoenician fertility goddess, Astarte (later identified with Venus and worshipped by the Romans) and its own eponymous - if mythical - hero, the Elymi ruler Eryx. Both Hercules and Aeneas are associated with ancient Erice. According to Diodorus Siculus, Eryx received Heracles (Hercules) on his visit to this part of Sicily, and lost to him in a wrestling bout. As Eryx would have been a son of Aphrodite and King Butes of the Olympians, Virgil identifies him as a brother of Aeneas.” (goes on much longer)_
