Experience Sicily

Category: Swimming/Boating

  • Mountains And Sea In Western Sicily

    Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve in Western Sicily takes my breath away with its majestic mountains and turquoise sea.

  • Falconara Beach On Sicily’s Mediterranean Sea Coast

    Always build in a stop at the beach. If even for just a short dip in the sea. For our Experience Sicily small-group summer tours, it’s obligatory! This sandy beach is Falconara Beach in Butera, Sicily on the Mediterranean Sea (south coast).

  • Swimming In Siracusa

    When in Ortigia, you can swim right off the sea wall.

  • Inspired By Siculiana Marina’s Beach In Sicily

    How does one describe one of the most beautiful beaches in Sicily? Words aren’t always sufficient. If it’s any indication of just how magnificent Siculiana Marina is, Sicilian guitarist Francesco Buzzurro composed an entire album of songs inspired by it called Il Quinto Elemento (The Fifth Element). When I heard him perform pieces from it…

  • Secret Swimming Spot On The Sea

    Locals only

  • Summer Breeze Above the Sea at Scala dei Turchi

    Scala dei Turchi (aka the Stairs of the Turks) was named after a local legend that recounts when Turkish, AKA Saracen, pirates scaled the white cliffs that pour like stairs into the Africa-facing sea.

  • Still Dreaming: An Update On Travel To Sicily

    The ancient tonnara (tuna fishery and cannery) at Scopello is now a swimming spot. Dream now, travel later. The Latest About Italy Travel From Experience Sicily By Allison Scola The European Union is easing its travel restrictions for foreign nationals as of July 1. But not so fast—that does not yet mean that American citizens…

  • Sicily’s Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve Awaits

    Dream now, travel later. We’ll be back swimming at Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve as soon as we can! Our skipper Mario is expecting us.

  • The Capo Zafferano Lighthouse Lights The Way

    The lighthouse at Capo Zafferano, Santa Flavia, Sicily was built in 1884. After years of vandalism and neglect, it is being restored. It lights the way along the rugged Tyrrhenian Sea coast for the fisherman of Porticello and Aspra.