Mount Bonifato

Mount Bonifato is a mountain in north western Sicily in the province of Trapani.

It is famous for the pine forest and the Nature Reserve Bosco di Alcamo. On its slopes they have found a protohistoric necropolis and traces of an ancient settlement. If you go up to the peak you can see the remains of an old water supply infrastructure (called "Funtanazza") and a gate (called "Porta della Regina"), which implies the existence of surrounding walls. 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.

Territory

Mount Bonifato is located in the hinterland of gulf of Castellammare, between the valley of Fiume Freddo (a river on the west) and Fiume Jato (a river on the east).

It shows quite steep faces on the south, while the declivity is more gradual in the northern part of the mountain, in proximity of Alcamo.

Until the first decades of the 19th century the mountain was covered with an oak wood of ilex and downy oak. In the thirties they began a massive reforestation prevalently with Aleppo pine that is the prevailing essence nowadays. The access to the mount and the nature reserve is provided by a town street: via per monte Bonifato. Along this road there is a large number of holiday houses, especially concentrated between the fourth and fifth hairpin bend from the valley floor, and it is illuminated for a large part of its course (with the exception of the last mile, before the entrance into the reserve area).

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Mount

Mount may refer to:

Displays and equipment

Weapon mount, equipment used to secure an armament

A fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe

Hanging scroll for mounting paintings

The display of an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore

Physically attaching a picture or a painting on to a support followed by framing with a picture frame.
Pinning up biological specimen on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissecting or display.

Physically attaching a picture or a painting on to a support followed by framing with a picture frame.

Pinning up biological specimen on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissecting or display.

Preservation methods used for display e.g. in a museum of fixed dead biological specimen which can be classified into wet or dry methods.

Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy

Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy

Mounting a coverslip on a specimen on a microscopic slide.

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Mount (computing)

Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer's file system. A user can only access files on mounted media.

Overview

A mount point is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives. As of 2013, magnetic media are still the most common and are available as hard disk drives and, less frequently, floppy disks. Before any of them can be used for storage, the means by which information is read and written must be organized and knowledge of this must be available to the operating system. The organization is called a filesystem. Each different filesystem provides the host operating system with metadata so that it knows how to read and write data. When the medium (or media, when the filesystem is a volume filesystem as in RAID arrays) is mounted, this metadata is read by the operating system so that it can use the storage.