Vendicari
1 Il Pantano grande
Why visit: Charming oasis in the south of Sicily that embraces an area of the coast of Syracuse with white sandy beaches and clear waters. An area full of riches on all fronts, from biodiversity to geological history to archaeology that reveals the ancient settlements.
Dont’ miss: The beaches, the Tonnara and the island of Vendicari.
Dont’ miss: The beaches, the Tonnara and the island of Vendicari.
2 La Tonnara
Why visit: Charming oasis in the south of Sicily that embraces an area of the coast of Syracuse with white sandy beaches and clear waters. An area full of riches on all fronts, from biodiversity to geological history to archaeology that reveals the ancient settlements.
Dont’ miss: The beaches, the Tonnara and the island of Vendicari.
Dont’ miss: The beaches, the Tonnara and the island of Vendicari.
3 Il Pantano Piccolo
The Nature Reserve “Vendicari Wildlife Oasis”
Crystal clear sea, long and golden beaches, incredible landscapes, mediterranean vegetation, bird watching observers that will allow you to admire flamingos, herons, storks and other splendid birds.
Both the terrestrial environments surrounding the marshes and the aquatic ones are characterized by an extraordinary variety of habitats and exceptional biodiversity: this is due, as concerns the former, to the presence of very different substratum, a particular hydro-geological characteristics and to the different physical-chemical characteristics of the waters.
Hence the terrestrial environments enumerate precious phyto-sociological associations, proper to these systems and big variety of species, some of which have almost disappeared in the rest of Sicily.
4 La Spiaggia
Flora and Environment
There is very dense Mediterranean scrub, which in general characterizes the territory with lentisk, myrtle, alatem, spartium, wild olive trees, etc., rich in psammo-halophilous and halophilous species.
The sandy environment coastal includes, distributed in strips parallel to the coast from the shore towards inland, sea rocket, saltwort, beach-grass, Eryngium creticum, maritime euphorbia, sea lily; beach restharrow, beach cornflower, maritime fennel, in the strips behind the dunes; an exclusive, dense and uninterrupted strip of Mediterranean scrub with juniper, together with ephedra, lentisk and phyllirea in the most inland and unmolested dunes.
This big variety of intact environments is the essential basis for variegated presence of ecological niches, elsewhere unimaginable, which afford a refuge for an elevated number of animal species, many of them on the way to extinction in Sicily.