Dinghy Rental Milazzo, Aeolian Islands excursions. Porto Milazzo and Portorosa. Dinghy taxi, boat transfer. Aeolian islands excursions. See...
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‘Near the island of Lipari, a mile to the west, is another island called Salina, where there are beautiful vines not of wine grapes but zibibbo grapes, where large quantities are made and exported as far as Constantinople’. This was written by the abbot Gerolamo Maurando who arrived in the islands following the pirate Ariadeno Red Beard in the summer of 1544 and gives us important evidence of the flourishing economic activity of...
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The caper, whose name comes from the Arabic ‘cabr’ or ‘cabir’ is from the Asiatic, subtropical area. If left to blossom, they are very beautiful flowers, elegant and fragile, exotic. The fruit is called ‘cucunci’ and looks like a gherkin. If you can see the plant in flower it means that the cultivation has been neglected. Every flower is a caper not picked. In the Eolian Islands there are two varieties: the ‘nocella’ and the...
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The story of his passion says that Bartholomew Apostle was martyred in Asia. Many years after his passion, during a new wave of persecution against Christians, the pagans saw the people praying at his tomb and, out of hate, took away his body, placed it in a lead sarcophagus and threw it into the sea saying: may you never have influence over our people again. But with the intervention of God’s Providence the lead sarcophagus, carried...
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Eolian cuisine is inspired, changeable, variegated, full of unifying and contrasting moods at the same time, thanks to the incredible concentration of history, culture, and customs that have gradually followed one another. In every dish there is ancient wisdom which the Eolian islanders have managed to enrich, elaborate and transform, until they make it an original and unrepeatable gastronomic experience. The principal characteristic...
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Around 1880 the Eolian islands, experienced a moment of great economic and demographic development. Agriculture and fishing traditionally occupied a large part of the workforce, although the merchant fleets of Lipari, Salina and Stromboli numbered more than 200 ships, with ‘Paranzieddi’, ‘Bovi’, ‘Marticane’ and ‘Briantini’ providing connections with Naples, Livorno, Marseilles and Toulon. It was the success of malmsey which towed...
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