Filicudi

The senses tell The Village of Capo Graziano

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The blue Filicudi

Filicudi is one of the most famous places in Italy for its clear waters. The clear blue sea at Filicudi is unlike anywhere else in the Mediterranean. Take a moment to stop at the beach of Filicudi Pecorini, at the beginning of the promontory of Capo Graziano, and appreciate the crystal blue sea.

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Typical products of Filicudi

Filicudi is rich in typical products made directly on the island. From the unmissable capers to tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes cultivated in the spring/summer period, you can discover new flavours here.

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The ferns of Filicudi

Filicudi’s name comes from Phoenicusa, meaning Fern.
You need only go just beyond the main roads to find lots of them, and to smell the intense scent they give off.

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Silence filicudi

Filicudi does not experience mass tourism like other islands. Therefore, any time of the year is ideal for taking a dip in absolute silence.
Close your eyes during the day and if you are lucky you will hear a concert of cicadas.
At night the cicadas are replaced by crickets, owls and other nocturnal animals, an experience not easily forgotten.

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Black sand

Go to the beach near the port of Filicudi. Here, along with pebbles, you will find volcanic sand, which is typically black. Pick up a handful of sand, perhaps from under the water, and you will feel its delicacy and simultaneous strength and robustness.

The senses tell The Stacks of Panarea

The prehistoric village of Cala Junco

How pumice is formed

Filicudi: small island, big history

Lipari Castle, “fused” with the lava

Tsunamis: a not uncommon phenomenon in Stromboli

Vulcano, the youngest of the Aeolian works of art

Volcanoes as a natural art form

Salina, the green island with twin mountains

Pollara, between poetry and beauty

“Strombolian” activity in the place where its definition was born

The 2002-03 eruption

The underwater fumarolic activity of Lisca Bianca

The Aeolian Islands, where volcanology was born

Between brush strokes of sulphur and clouds of steam: the fumaroles of the port of Vulcano

Malvasia delle Lipari DOC

The Sciara del Fuoco

The polis of the living and the necropolis of the dead

Panarea and its history

Stories of the sea and shipwrecks. The wrecks of the Aeolian Islands

The pure white of the pumice quarries

The underwater morphological elements of the Aeolian Islands

The Cathedral of Lipari and the Norman Cloister of the Benedictine Monastery

Lipari, where history intertwines with volcanoes to create archaeology

“Vulcanian” eruptions

The senses tell The Village of Capo Graziano

Alicudi, where time has stood still

The senses tell The Pumice Quarries of Lipari

Panarea, where sea and volcanoes become sculptors

The senses tell The Sciara del Fuoco

Stromboli, the volcano that breathes

Where do Vulcano’s gases come from?

The Gran Cratere of the Fossa: when the volcano becomes a sculptor

The malleability of Vulcano’s mud

The salt lake of Lingua

The Thermal Baths of Saint Calogerus

The stacks of Panarea

The hidden part of the Aeolian Islands

The summit craters

The senses tell The salt lake of Lingua

The ancient production of salt

At the heart of trade in history

Lipari at the centre of Mediterranean history

The senses tell The summit craters

Seven islands, dozens of volcanoes

Filicudi, a submerged paradise

Myths and legends about volcanoes

The Village of Capo Graziano