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Mediterranean · June to September
Aeolian Islands & Sicily
Panarea and Stromboli, then Taormina, Ortigia and the Egadi. Volcanoes on one side of the deck and Magna Graecia on the other.
33 places on the chart: 5 harbour towns and ports, 23 islands, 3 anchorages and bays and 2 beaches.
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Why the fleet comes here
- Palermo
- Marina Villa Igiea, and the north-coast base
- Syracuse
- The Porto Grande, one of the great natural harbours of the Mediterranean
- Stromboli
- Anchor off the Sciara del Fuoco and watch the volcano work after dark
- Taormina
- The bay at Isola Bella under the Greek theatre
- Lipari
- The largest Aeolian, and the group’s only real town
- Cefalù
- A Norman cathedral and a beach under a rock, on the north coast
- Ortygia
- The old city of Syracuse, and the quay along its west side
- Vulcano
- The first Aeolian off the Sicilian coast, with an anchorage in Porto di Levante
- Salina
- Two extinct cones and the anchorage at Pollara
- Isola Bella
- The islet below Taormina, and the anchorage around it
- Panarea
- The smallest Aeolian and the one the fleet anchors off in August
- Alicudi
- The furthest and steepest of the Aeolians
- Filicudi
- The western Aeolians, and the sea stack of La Canna
- Levanzo
- The smallest inhabited Egadi
- Marettimo
- The furthest Egadi, and the clearest water in the group
- Marzamemi
- A tuna-fishery village at the south-east corner of Sicily
- Mondello
- Palermo’s beach, in a bay between two headlands
- Favignana
- The largest Egadi island, with anchorages on every side
- Pantelleria
- Closer to Tunisia than to Sicily; the Specchio di Venere and the dammusi
- Ustica
- A marine reserve north of Palermo
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