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The sea


From a sea of Ognina cobalt, greeted the remains of the sixteenth century lookout tower, the watchful eye of a theory of seven hollow caves on the coast, you glimpse the outline of the high castle, with turrets and battlements, Aci, a Norman fortress erected in 1076 on an impregnable fortress, made of a thick pile of basaltic globes, overlooking the sea, now houses the local museum, guardian of a rich mineral collection, among other things. The legend tells of the young shepherd Acis, love of the nymph Galatea, who took refuge in the castle by the fury of Polyphemus, however, succeeded in overthrowing the successful rival. Neptune, god of the sea, moved by the tenderness in each other's body turned Acis into a river that ended its run in the Galatea, the sea turned into. Further to the north of Aci Castello, in front of Acitrezza "Malavoglia" by Giovanni Verga and "The earth trembles" by Luchino Visconti, a trace of the Odyssey, the journey back to Ithaca of Ulysses, the wrath of the Cyclops Polyphemus the Cyclops rocks or islands, or to follow the crown or Lachea island of Aci, nature reserve of great geological interest naturalistico.Il sea is magic, its a wonder to the world's fisheries waters and the variety of plants, algae, sponges and corals. Still in excellent condition, built with lava material in the second half of the sixteenth century presents the lighthouse tower of St. Anne, or, followed and harassed the activity of sighting and firing from a tower pollarded, the old tower.
A tower of defense, the nuncio of Capomulini, another magnificent seaside resort, disseminated, as the whole coast to Alcantara, with inns, restaurants on the sea, with mussels, sea urchins and shellfish that lord it over dinner tables.Catania is the queen of the Baroque on the Ionian Sea, Acireale, 15 km from the capital, is the princess-regent, who is regally situated, overlooking the sea, on a terrace of lava, a precipice. From the terrace the sea salt as Timpa green, rocky ridge, which is mirrored on a stretch of pure ionic water: a wall of ancient lava resting on a pedestal, watery, a tuft of Mediterranean food to take immersed in the sea. It 'a steep slope more than 140 feet above the sea parallel to the 7 km long coastline, which starts at Capomulini for the "Timpa Don Masi", Santa Caterina, Santa Maria La Scala Santa Tecla well. Sediments at least two eruptive cycles, slow and Mediterranean, nettle, milkweed, wild olive and carob. A source of water colored with ferruginous lava rations leading to a creek where they stop before the boats diporto.Una Cathedral of lava on the sea that hides leaning against the ramparts of the seventeenth century and emerging strength of touch, confused with terraced stone lavico.Estasi from which pure recover to recover the sight of Santa Maria la Scala, a small fishing village, gathered around a seventeenth-century church at the foot of La Timpa. Once a haven for large ships coming from Malta or from Trapani and from Lipari, the port and fortress of which remain tracce.Piccoli places great pleasures: Santa Tecla, but not a Christian Arab named Sciant Size (landing place) with the remains of a tower, and then Scillichenti, calibrated by the ruins of the old trading port where he embarked lava stone for markets outside the island, Pozzillo port and a source of mineral water rich in salts. Marinate small towns that follow the coast to complete the stations, high-qualified and hotel accommodations, the Riviera of the Cyclops and the introduction of high Archirafi beaches, strewn with rounded rocks. And 'sea of ​​Ripon with Torre lobsters: the pots suggest that you see here and there, in front of the doors. Ripon - because you are storing the loading of ships waiting to sail into international markets - has a pebble beach and a vocation to become a child marina shipyard and large commercial port and from which it was loads of wine were exported and citrus, and then, even sulfur. Catania After that it is considered the largest port of the Ionian coast, a futuristic concrete landing place for nautical tourism in Taormina and wishing directed Alcantara, to make the port of Etna, the snow from the sea, vineyards, citrus groves, orchards and land lavici.Per swimming in the sea there is a nice beach, S. Anna.
La Fondachello Beach, full of camping, then the mouth of the river with its unique Cool submerged vegetation, and, therefore, the Marine Cotton, also equipped with camping and followed the coast of Calatabiano embellished with a residence fortified castle known as St. Mark's (designed by the late seventeenth century), surrounded by a pine forest that is home to rich and unlikely a camping, marine and agrotouristic: the last outpost bordering the coast before reaching the Etna Alcantara Gorge, all drinks and back .