The
sea front of Santa Marina (Salina Island) with its typical shops, is
a pleasant place to stroll along.
To 100 m about
from the ring road, there are the caves: in this place the
inhabitants found refuge from the attacks of the Saracens in the 7 C
AD.
Many beautiful is
the little beach of Punta dello Scario in Malfa: it is a rocky
amphitheatre, with the old storehouses of the fisherman,
picturesquely painted.
To south of Santa
Marina to Lingua there is a small salad lake used like saline since
the end of the last century.
The ethnological
and anthropological museum, is more interesting, infact, in this
museum there are the old tools used by the islanders in their works.
Following a road
reach the Fossa delle felci's peak (962 m above the sea) the most
high of the Aeolian archipelago. In Valdichiesa there is the
sanctuary of Madonna del Terzito (1622): according to tradition, one
day a country man was disforesting the zone, while he was listening
a sound of a bell, he followed it and found a painting with the
Virgin Mary image. In that point, was built the sanctuary. The name
"Terzito" from the Spanish terzillo, triplet, to indicate
the triple sound of the bell that invited to the prayer.
Go on, it reach
to Leni, nice centre agricultural, and Rinella famous tourist
resort with the beach of black sand, the small port, and the ancient
caves used by the fisherman. To Pollara, there is a group of small
houses in a green field, and one of the most beautiful beach of the
Island, in a frame of vulcanic rock of different colours and smooted
by fire, sea, and wind. This beautiful landscape is into the ancient
crater. To Pollara there is the house where made the film "Il
Postino" with Massimo Troisi.
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Visits:
to the
Sanctuary of the Madonna del Terzito (Valdichiesa); to the oriented
natural reserve of the Mounts Fossa delle Felci and dei Porri (it is
advisable to previously ask permission to reach the summit of the
Fossa). Excursions: to M. Fossa delle Felci, (962 m.a.s.l.) (the highest peak of the archipelago) to M. dei Porri and in Valdichiesa, to Pollara. Boat Trip: the circumnavigation of the island. lnteresting is the coast between P. Lingua and P. delle tre Pietre and the Western coast. |