Egadi

Sailing holidays to the Egadi Islands

Favignana, Levanzo and Marettimo are three extraordinary islands, just off Trapani. This long photo gallery will give you a taste of their charm. Below, you will find information on bays, beaches, countries and cliffs, as well as recommended itineraries and some travel anecdotes. The best way to explore the archipelago is a sailing holiday: not only because from the sea every place is more beautiful, but also because surf allows you to really live the sea and explore the most hidden and less frequented places.
In this photo gallery you will find many images of the Egadi Islands, but also of San Vito Lo Capo, Riserva dello Zingaro and other beauties of the area:

Egadi Islands: Travel Itineraries and Notes

Favignana, Levanzo, Marettimo: The Egadi Archipelago is composed of three islands as fascinating as different. The largest, populous and lively is Favignana. Levanzo has an amazing village of white houses and spectacular bays. Marettimo is the most distant and wild as well as the paradise of good fish.
But what to see during a holiday at the Egadi? And what to do?
Trapani is the nearest starting point for the islands, but it is also a lively and interesting city. A beautiful historic center, beaches, bars and countless delicious restaurants. At the characteristic port of fishing boats, every weekday there is an animated market where you can buy fresh fish at great prices. The best part is the sellers who scream as if there was no tomorrow.

From Trapani the islands can be reached by ferry, but a sailing holiday is ideal for admiring the bays and the beaches of the archipelago, having fun in the wind, in symbiosis with nature. Favignana, the closest of the Egadi islands, is just six miles, about an hour of sailing from the city.
Freshness in Rada, at anchor or one of the gavitelli in the bays of the island, allows you to experience nature at His maximum: the sunset, a dinner on the sea with the only sound of the waves, the sunrise under a cliff, breakfast lulled by the wind. Maybe eating fresh prawns bought to the fish market (for dinner, I mean, but if you also want to breakfast) and drinking the cricket, local white wine. All small amazing pleasures to indulge during the holiday (so much so that it would feel like it exaggerates and eating eighteen, of prawns, drinking seven or eight bottles of cricket ... and sometimes, in fact, it is done; concluding with digestive and cigar)

Mooring in the port of Favignana, instead, you can run for the city's characteristic, visit the Florio wineries, rent a bicycle or walk to the strong that stands out on the island. If it is very hot, the walk becomes an epic company, but the steep climb leads to unforgettable panoramas on the Egadi, so it's worth it. Fortress is also open and accessible, without checks or tickets or other. A decadent place, abandoned, with rooms full of calcinacci, some rusty and obsolete machinery, solid walls and wobbling walls, cows walking around the fort and, precisely, an amazing view of Favignana, Levanzo and the Sicula coast. For someone the highest point of the holiday (at least as a fee;)).

Before exploring Favignana further, you can sap for the other islands of the archipelago. Two edges, or even three, towards Levanzo, and a nice ride in a rama in which the wine remained from the previous evening (if it remained: better to have several reserves). With the tender (the Gommoncino) you can visit the village.

A wild and beautiful bay is Cala Tramontana, more distant from the village but perfect for another mooring in nature or even just for a bathroom (there are some photos here: Sail charter in Sicily ). For social life it is better to go back to Favignana or Trapani. But you can even stay in nature and visit some other bay of Levanzo. There are beautiful, fantastic and amazing: of ugly, squalid and pawns, instead, none.

The time comes to sail to Marettimo, the furthest and for many the most fascinating of the Egadi, where you arrive with three hours of navigation that are often a spass. During a sailing holiday, the movements themselves are part of the journey, indeed they are a fundamental part in the spirit of the holiday in this amazing nature.

Marettimo is an island of high rocky cliffs on the western side, and of greener slopes and slightly less steep on the eastern side, where there are the port and the city.

Marettimo Country is a small paradise, a village isolated from the world in an island forgotten since time ... well, of course, there are ferries that bring tourists (apart when the sirocco blows) and several boats, in summer. There is internet (a little at least) and there are diverse for those on vacation. But the white houses piled out that from the hill descend to the sea and the fishermen with blue boats and colored nets give a very characteristic image.

And it is characteristic even eating a "Fiorentina di Tuna" in the best restaurant in the country (the "steak" that you can ever taste) and then, in the evening, turning to the country, which is quiet even in the holidays of August, separately Some bars in which the few souls are concentrated on the island.
and when you are there, perhaps united by the spirit of communion of the small countries (yes, I know, sometimes in small countries all hate everyone and they are together by necessity, but this is not the case), and united also from the Peace and happiness due to the natural beauty of the place, one can celebrate until late at night, although it is appropriate to get up early, the next day, to explore the island and enjoy as much as possible.

The western part of Marettimo is a natural park that can be visited, underweight, only through organized trips. With your boat you can still moor in some amazing bays, both at anchor and, in summer, to gavitello.
After this, you can resume sailing (you can also stay in Marettimo for weeks, for charity , you're a show) and return to Favignana. Swiiiiiiisshhhh swuuushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (which would be the sound of the boat that cracks the waves and the wind), perhaps two edges accompanied by dolphins, and the holiday at the Egadi can continue in another area of ​​Favignana, for example in Cala Rotonda: a circular bay, Almost completely closed, with a so clear water that you could see New Zealand if there was no earth in the middle. Among the rocks, a couple of caves to explore, and in which to pack if you are in the vein of romantic hospices (of which I don't want to know anything about, anyway).

Here are the descriptions of these holidays at the Egadi, but a good writer could get lost in the root of high-sounding words to tell a lot of beauty. At this point, instead, I limit myself to inviting you to look at the whole photo gallery in the Facebook post at the top, if you haven't done it yet.
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