The Aeolian Sea offers enchanting scenery, often only accessible by boat. Among cliffs, reefs and with a seabed rich in biodiversity. There are beaches of rare beauty, such as Valle Muria and Acquacaldain Lipari, Bazzini in Alicudi, Le Punte in Filcudi, Cala Zimmariin Panarea, the Gelso, the Sabbie Nere (black sands) in Vulcano and Piscità in Stromboli.
A crossroads between history and legends, the island are a simulating destination for cultural tourism. Humans have inhabited the Aeolian Islands for 8,000 years and have shaped its landscape by creating impressive terraces, leaving traces of their presence not only on the castle of Lipari monumental complex, which hosts the important “L. Bernabò Brea” Regional Archaeological Museum with its numerous relics from the Neolithic to the Byzantine era, but also in the perfectly preserved Bronze Age villages found on Capo Graziano in Filicudi, Serro del capo in Salina and Punta Milazzese in Panarea.
To discover the Aeolian landscapes, there are numerous trails, ideal for hiking enthusiasts, which wind their way among the soft-leaved scrubland, coastal meadows, broom and Mediterranean brush, composed of mostly heather and evergreen arbutus bushes.
The production of wine, particularly that made from Malvasia and Corinto Nero grapes, along with farming, where capers are grown alongside other local products, give an unmistakable character to a gastronomic tradition that reflects a long history of “isole contadine”- farming islands – that also includes the fishing of albacore, swordfish and prawns.