Filicudi

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Lipari, ME

Filicudi is a wild, quiet island, where fishermen's houses are scattered over the terraces and the beaches stay uncrowded. The ancients called it Phoenicusa, the island of dwarf palms.

At Capo Graziano lies one of the oldest Bronze Age villages in the Aeolian Islands, which gave its name to an entire prehistoric culture. On the coast, the Canna stack, a spire of rock rising from the sea, is the symbol of the island. Along the coast there are sea caves you visit by boat, such as the Grotta del Bue Marino.

Here time flows slowly: you walk among dry-stone walls, eat freshly caught fish and swim without crowds.

• Always accessible
• 1 day or more
• Free entry
• May to October
• Few connections and narrow roads; the villages involve steps and paths.
• A boat trip is the best way to see the Canna and the caves. Check the hydrofoil timetables: in the evening there are few connections.