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The tourist port of Marina di Ragusa is the ideal base for sailing towards the south of Sicily: (Donnalucata, Pozzallo, Islands of the Currents, Porto Palo of Capo Passero, Marzamemi, Syracuse, Catania, Riposto, Punta Braccetto, Scoglitti, Licata, Agrigento "San Leone", Scala dei Turchi).
From Marina di Ragusa it is possible to leave to visit the islands of Malta, Cumin, Gozo, Lampedusa, Linosa, Street lamp, Pantelleria, or for an excursion to Tunisia. Marina di Ragusa can be easily reached from the Catania and Comiso airports.
Comiso airport, base of low-cost and traditional airlines that practice very affordable flights to and from all over Europe.
Ideal boarding base for Aeolian Islands, the sailing paradise: seven islands a few miles away from each other, seven different faces of the incredible beauty of the land of volcanoes.
With his almost 600 berths, its services (bar, restaurants, supermarket, nautical shops, parking lots, ecc.) Marina di Capo D'Orlando is one of the most elegant and equipped tourist ports in Sicily.
The Aeolian archipelago is of volcanic origin and nature, is located in the north of Sicily and is composed of 7 differently splendid islands: Lipari, Salina, Volcano, the largest, ad Ovest: Filicudi and Alicudi, a North-East: Panarea and Stromboli. Filicudi and Alicudi are the oldest, in fact, they are approximately one million years old; Vulcano and Stromboli are the youngest as their very intense volcanic activity reveals.
In the other islands the volcanic nature is limited to manifesting itself with gas puffs, seething waters, underwater springs of hot waters and thermal muds
It was a Greek colony, Tyndareus, founded by the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysius the Elder in 396 a.c. The position of Tindari is strategic, from here you can check the entire stretch of sea between the Aeolian Islands and Messina.
On the top of Tindari, visible from afar, there is a sanctuary where a black Byzantine Virgin is housed and is a destination for religious pilgrimages.
At the peak you can see the Marinello lakes, small pools of water that always change shape.
Archaeologically it is a very rich area: you can visit the fortification walls built at the time of Dionysius the Elder, a complete district of Terme, residences and a patrician house of Romanesque times and the Greek theater.
It was born as a tourist city because Siculi, Greeks, Romans and many others chose it to stay there for a long time and not only for political and strategic reasons. Many were and are in love with Taormina: Goethe, From there, Klimt, Nabokov, Weather in Sciascia, Pirandello are just some of the prestigious names who have been enchanted by this town that blends art in itself, culture and spectacular nature.
Coming from Messina after S.. Alessio and Letojanni - all enchanting places by sea and land - you get to Taormina Mare passing through Mazzarò, Capo Sant’Andrea and Capo Taormina.
In the crystalline sea, just below Taormina city, Isolabella is located, lump of rock covered with Mediterranean vegetation, of incomparable beauty.
In Capo Sant’Andrea you can reach beautiful sea caves by boat and practice all water sports.
It is not possible to describe Taormina, you must visit it.
It is the highest volcano in Europe, it is located in north-eastern Sicily and since ancient times its activity has been the object of admiration and fear.
Etna, indeed , it was indicated as the forge of the god Vulcan and the Cyclops, or like the pillar of heaven.
It overlooks the Ionian sea to the east, to the north it is bordered by the Alcantara river which flows between the beautiful "Alcantara Gorges", to the west and south - west it is bordered by the Simeto river.
The current shape of Etna dates back to the mid-1940s, high about 3.330 mt has a perimeter of 210km and an area of 1,600km.
The most famous of Etna's eruptions is that of 1669, when an immense torrent of fluid lava reached Catania, destroying it in part.