Favignana

While the elegance of Palazzo Florio, welcomes visitors just landed at the port, in the small fishing village that tells the articulated history of the so called “butterfly island” with its houses, its streets.   

At the naturalistic level, the island, called “the big butterfly on the sea”, is an oasis of nature: caves, beaches, coves, caves populated by gardens or lapped by the water and a breath-taking sea to live intensely. In fact, Favignana is the largest of the islands of the largest marine protected area in Europe surrounded by the sea. On its shores there is a succession of beautiful beaches and coves. In Favignana is easy to get in touch with nature in many different ways. Its water depths and beautiful coves are a destination for snorkelling enthusiasts, but the island, thanks to its geo-morphological conformation, allows you to enjoy almost the entire coastline, with large sandy stretches alternating with rocky ones in the southern part, while the northern one is rocky, characterized by flat rocks, evidence of the ancient practice of extraction of calcarenite.          

In this, the most “worldly” of the islands of the archipelago, are above all the central streets of the town – between piazza Madrice and piazza Europa – to welcome the numerous restaurants where to have dinner or an aperitif. Obviously, the menus are rooted in the fertile waters of the sea: the daily fresh catch is an excellence and here it is possible to find the most suitable local recipes to exalt the flavours.