The Zingaro nature reserve

Hill slopes that reach sea, between San Vito lo Capo and Castellammare del Golfo, foretell the beginning of the Zingaro nature reserve. A nature paradise kept miraculously integral with its incomparable beauty.

Short paths suitably created on ravines that reach sea or climb up the mountains allow to walk through one of the most spectacular place of Mediterranean. A long line of peaked walls, harsh headlands, magnificent inlets, sandy beaches, underwater grottoes and tunnels, narrow valleys that reflect in the uncontaminated sea of costantly changing colours always limpid, characterize the passing.

First nature reserve to have been set up in Sicily, the Zingaro is extremely important for the abundance of rare and endemic plants and perhaps even more so for its fauna. In this area there nest about ten kinds of birds including the pilgrim falcon, the Bonelli eagle, buzzards, wind havers, real kite and others birds in extinction. The area is also important from the archaeological point of view seeing that in the spectacular Uzzo grotto there was one of the first human settlements in the area.

The reserve is magnificently organised, with paths with precise directions, shelters, water taps, pic-nic areas, museums, car park, there are no roads and it can only be visited on foot.

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