Paceco

Infobox CityIT
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official_name = Città di Paceco
name = Paceco
region = flagicon|Sicily Sicily
province = Trapani (TP)
elevation_m = 36
area_total_km2 = 58
population_as_of = December 31, 2004
population_total = 11110
population_density_km2 = 189
coordinates = coord|37|59|N|12|33|E|region:IT_type:city(11110)
mapx = 37.980
mapy = 12.558
frazioni = Dattilo, Nubia
telephone = 0923
postalcode = 91027
gentilic = Pacecoti
saint = St. Catherine of Alexandria
day = November 25
mayor = Antonio Giuseppe Plaja (since June 10, 2003)
website = [http://www.comune.paceco.tp.it http://www.comune.paceco.tp.it]

Paceco is a town in South-Western Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Trapani, located nearby the Trapani city area (a distance of 5 Km). It has 11,110 inhabitants as of 2004.

Paceco is a small rural centre: among its agricultural products there are melons, cereals, olives, grapes, and cheese dairy products. In Paceco are also present some sheep-breedings.

The centre was founded in 1607 by the marquis Placido Fardella. The town is however named after his wife, Teresa Paceco of Vigliena. Conceived in conformity with a meditated urban scheme, Paceco's installation is a mesh perfectly orthogonal with some rectangular isolated (ippodomea plan), very recurrent in the inhabited places of the 1600s.

Local monuments include the Cathedral Church, consecrated to the SS. Crucifix, built in 1623 and placed in the main "piazza" of the centre. Recently the Church has been entirely restored in order to make it regain the original beauty. In addition, there are the churches of Porto Salvo, Santo Padre, and Santa Lucia.

The city is connected via bus services from the neighbouring city of Trapani.