FOTO USTICA
MAPS of USTICA
The photos of the calettes, of the backdrops, of the caves and of the reserves of Ustica.
The maps of Ustica, of the Marine Protected Area and of the Natural Directed Earthling.
The island of ustica, 70 North km in Palermo, is the peak emerged of a volcano submarine tall 2000 mt. built ago a million years. For variety of volcanos the island is a museum of sky volcanology opened. Of great interest they are the archaeological testimonies: the imposing Village of the Faraglionis with about ten huts, strengthened by a stately wall along 250 mt. with towers, it goes up again to the Average age of the Bronze.
To walk for the stradines of the historical center is fascinating for the gallery of murales that decorate the face of the houses, among the alleys feelings that bring to the past and perfumes of traditional dishes that they accompany the run along the houses, before which are exposed on typical chairs impagliate, the typical products from the forgotten tastes. In the typical restaurants of Ustica, besides the good fish and to the tastes of the Sicilian
The beauty of the backdrops and the uncontaminated terrestrial nature, despite the least distance that separates her from Palermo, they make almost distant Ustica, firm in the time and fascinating. The exceptional transparency and transparency of its waters allow everybody, with mask and fins, to fully enjoy of its submerged treasures. The backdrops, decorated by branches of gorgonie, sponges and motley incrostazioni, they are set by sudden shoals and fascinating caves, and populated by every kind typical of the Mediterranean for which Ustica, Reserve Marina from 1986, constitutes the ideal habitat. The particular morphology of the backdrops of the island allows the scuba divers of any level of preparation a great variety of immersions. To bathe in the splendid waters usticesi is an unique experience and irripetibile in the Italian seas. Already in the first meters under the superfice you/they can be met big cernie, saraghi, ricciole, flocks of barracuda, clouds of shrimps and to assist to spectacular games shades and colors. They are more than thirty the immersions that can be effected to Ustica, and particularly those to the "the Physician's Rock-cliff", to the " Shoal of the Colombara ", to the " Cave of the Shrimps " and the " Sicchitello " they have made to deserve to the island the appellative of "Heaven of the Sub."
Natural Reserves. The integrity of the backdrops and the beauty of the territory make of Ustica an island of great naturalistic interest. The two reserves that protect her, the area Marina Protetta, founded in 1986 and the Directed Natural Reserve, founded in 1997, they favor a correct fruition of the island above, and under the sea.
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cuisine, don't lose you the smallest lentils in Italy that, being cultivated on the volcanic grounds, they have a very particular taste. The evening, in the piazzetta of the country, it is to taste mandatory you granulate her, cancels Sicilian, the cannolis and the inimitable cassatelles and the giggis, traditional and exclusive sweets of the island.
A vast Roman necropolis with pit graves and ipogei it is to the Falconiera; rests of Roman farms on the whole territory.
Protected Marine Area
Before in Italy, it is separated in the three zones:
zone A To backup integral where, in some areas, the bathing is allowed, unique occasion to familiarize with the fishes that have learned not to fear the man;
zone B is allowed the underwater photo and the sporting fishing with lock fishing-lines and from drawing; zone C is allowed all the forms of sporting fishing except the underwater fishing. An unique and original experience absolutely consists of crossing the itinerary archaeological scuba diver, the first one in the world: to a depth among the 10 and the 25 mt. a thread of Arianna drives the visit to the finds, ancient amphoras and anchors, directly in the sites of recovery.
Natural Directed Earthling
signalled pedestrian runs they facilitate the exploration of the island. To walk absorbed in the green along the paths of the grove is an experience rich in charm and mystery. To cross the paths of the shore, afoot or with the asinello, now to the edges of a precipice now on the dessert decline of the washes descent to the sea, to pick up a flower of caper, to observe numerous kinds of migratory birds, arouses intense emotions.
Before in Italy, it is separated in the three zones:
zone A To backup integral where, in some areas, the bathing is allowed, unique occasion to familiarize with the fishes that have learned not to fear the man;
zone B is allowed the underwater photo and the sporting fishing with lock fishing-lines and from drawing; zone C is allowed all the forms of sporting fishing except the underwater fishing. An unique and original experience absolutely consists of crossing the itinerary archaeological scuba diver, the first one in the world: to a depth among the 10 and the 25 mt. a thread of Arianna drives the visit to the finds, ancient amphoras and anchors, directly in the sites of recovery.
Natural Directed Earthling
signalled pedestrian runs they facilitate the exploration of the island. To walk absorbed in the green along the paths of the grove is an experience rich in charm and mystery. To cross the paths of the shore, afoot or with the asinello, now to the edges of a precipice now on the dessert decline of the washes descent to the sea, to pick up a flower of caper, to observe numerous kinds of migratory birds, arouses intense emotions.
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Le Terrazze Residence ***
di Dragna Carmela
Via C. Colombo, 3 - 90010 Ustica (Pa)
Tel. +39 091 8449901 - Fax 091 7486170
Cell. 338 9066477 - 339 4294992
P. IVA 05461330820
di Dragna Carmela
Via C. Colombo, 3 - 90010 Ustica (Pa)
Tel. +39 091 8449901 - Fax 091 7486170
Cell. 338 9066477 - 339 4294992
P. IVA 05461330820
