Rentals

make a booking

festivals
& events


San Gandolfo Festival
The 7th Wednesday after Easter and the 3rd week end in September
find out more >

The Most Holy Crucifix
Starts May 1st
find out more >

La Sagra delle Nocciole (The Hazelnut Festival)
Always in August usually after the 15th, a moveable date

Lo Sfoglio
Late August

Santa Lucia
December 13

 
 
 
 

Associated Links

www.go-sicily.it

www.visitingsicily.it

www.timesofsicily.com


 


Sicily: Lapped by Blue Seas

Posted by Suzanne on 08 Jan 2016

 

Surrounded by Seas

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, is lapped by the clear waters of three blue, inland seas: the Tyrrhenian to the north, the Ionian to the east and the Mediterranean to the south and west.

These seas have been crossed by waves of conquerors since antiquity and, curious travellers.

And, it is from the sheltered coastlines dotted with villages and cities, azure blue coves, pebbly beaches and stretches of sand that the traveller can look out over the eastern Mediterranean towards the Levant, Africa, the remoter Sicilians islands and the toe of mainland Italy.

 

The 'Sicilian' seas captured

Below, some images from The Sicilian House albums capture a little of the 'Sicilian' seas.

 

Levanzo, Egadi Islands with the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south

 

Near Marsala looking to the Egadi Islands, Mediterranean Sea 

 

Porto Palo di Menfi, Mediterranean Sea

 

Palermo, Tyrrhenian Sea 

 

Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea 

 

Looking from Taormina, Ionian Sea 

 

Palermo, Tyrrhenian Sea 

 

Cefalu, Tyrrhenian Sea 

 

Marettimo, Egadi Islands, where the Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean Seas meet 

 

Scopello, Tyrrhenian Sea 

 

Salve,

Suzanne


<< Back to list