[1] Besides, on the top there are the remains of a castle with four towers, that was built at the end of the 14th century by the Ventimiglia family, feudal lords of the territory of Alcamo for a certain period.

From the peak you can admire a landscape with the mountains of Palermo on the east and the island of Marettimo in the west; on clearer days you can also see Ustica in the north and mount Cammarata in the south-east.

In particular inside one of these quarries (now Geosite Travertino della Cava Cappuccini (Alcamo)), they have found remains (a natural cast of the brain, defences and molar teeth) of the dwarf elephant,[3][4] Elephas falconeri, the spheric eggs and the fossilized armour of a big tortoise (Geochelone sp.).

Inside Alcamo travertine they also discovered specimens of giant dormouse,[8] Cervus elaphus e Sus scrofa, hosted at the Civic Museum of Prehistory "Torre di Lignì" in Trapani.

[14] The Funtanazza has a rectangular shape with pillars sustaining a barrel vault, similar to the moorish fountains on the northern coasts of Africa.

[1] It dates back to 1182 a document about land grants in which this residential area appears with the name "Bonifato"[17] (or Bùnifat or Bonifacio), from the name of the Roman knight who became its owner.

[17] In 1779 the ruins of the castle were inserted in the Piano di conservazione dei Beni Culturali della Sicilia (Preservation Plan of the Cultural Heritage of Sicily) by Gabriele Lancillotto Castello, Prince of Torremuzza.

[1] At the Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas there are also some lanterns and stamps of bricks dating back to the Roman age, collected on Mount Bonifato by Pietro Maria Rocca[19] during the 19th century.

Several archaeological excavations have later been made on this mount,[20] revealing finds dating back to the Middle Ages and remains of very ancient settlements,[20] such as a house of the 6th-7th century A.D.[20] and fragments of ceramics and bronze now exhibited at the museum Baglio Anselmi of Marsala.

[14] During the last years the excavations have been done within some school-camps organized by Legambiente (1996), Archeoclub of Trapani-Erice (2000), LIPU (2001) and Gruppo Archeologico Drepanon (from 2007 to 2010, inside an iniziative called "Progetto Bunifat").