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Aci Trezza boat tour Cyclop coast,culture,swim in caves,food
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- Free cancellation available
- 3h
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- Multiple languages
Overview
- Guide on board for historical narration of the storic Ciclops coast
- Bathroom in a characteristic and exclusive Caves with tourist guide
- On the board boat with hot Sicilian food with sicilian organic wine tasting
- Classic wine tasting and sicilian menu
Activity location
- Catania
- Catania, Sicilia, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Via Ricca, 5, 95021 Aci Castello CT, Italy | Office Arturo Carelli Travel
- Aci Castello, Sicilia, Italy
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Aci Trezza boat tour Cyclop coast,culture,swim in caves,food
- 3h
- English
What's included, what's not
- Tourist guide on boat board for culture, story of Aci Trezza
- Food tasting and wine on the baot board
- Tourist guide for swimming in the cave's Ulisses
Know before you book
- Not suitable for: People prone to seasickness, People with heart problems, People with mobility impairments, Wheelchair users
What you can expect
From the ancient port of Aci Trezza in Sicily
Included in the price:
1) Guide on board for historical narration of the storic Ciclops coast and Aci Trezza
2) Swimming with tourist guide in Ulysses' s Caves
3) On the boat you eat a classic small hot Sicilian lunch with fresh organic wine from Agrigento
1.Island of Lachea Aci Trezza
The island Lachea, not large, is the largest of the outcrops that make up the archipelago of the Cyclops, just off Aci Trezza, in Sicily.
It is part of the Integral Natural Reserve Isola Lachea and Faraglioni dei Ciclopi, the protected area established by the Sicilian Region in 1998.
The island, like the others of the archipelago, is of subvolcanic origin, formed by the intrusion of magma in the pre-existing rocks of the seabed.
In 1869 a prehistoric diorite axe was found, while in 1919 two cave tombs were identified, carved into the rock by the hand of man. Of the late Roman period are the objects found inside one of the two large circular holes (about one meter deep) on the island: pots, amphorae, loom weights, bone needles, fragments of a bone comb and a small lamp.
The naturalistic museum houses a rich collection of fauna and flora.
The Faraglioni
It is thought that their origin is associated with the wrath of the cyclops Polyphemus who, blinded by Ulysses, would have thrown the rocks into the sea against the Greek hero to prevent him from fleeing.
A story that has certainly fueled legend about the Cyclops Islands, also told in the ninth book of the Odyssey. Fantasy aside, these are wonderful works of nature, sculpted for thousands of years by wind and rain, which fall within a protected marine area, composed of Lachea Island, stacks and four other rocks arranged in an arch. Their origin – in addition to the legend of Polyphemus – can be traced back to the first of the four phases of the evolution of the volcano Etna, an intense volcanic activity that began about half a million years ago.Norman Castle Aci Castello
The castle of Aci is located in Aci Castello in the province of Catania. The fortification of uncertain origin, was the fulcrum of the development of the territory of the Aci in the Middle Ages. During the Sicilian Vespers, it was subjected to the lordship of Roger of Lauria, then in the Aragonese era it was of John of Sicily and finally of the Alagona being besieged several times. It is currently home to a civic museum.
The basaltic promontory where the castle stands, consists of underwater lava flows (pillow) that have a radiometric age of about 500,000 years from the present. The basaltic cliff is surrounded by a lava flow of prehistoric times that in the historiography of the nineteenth century had been wrongly attributed to the eruption of 1169Ulysses' Caves in Ognina
Sicilian food and wine tasting
Location
Activity location
- Catania
- Catania, Sicilia, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Via Ricca, 5, 95021 Aci Castello CT, Italy | Office Arturo Carelli Travel
- Aci Castello, Sicilia, Italy