Sicily Charter Itinerary

Sicily Itinerary

Sicily Yacht Charter
Sicily has been Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab, Norman and Spanish, and each left something behind that the next did not remove. Palermo alone holds a cathedral with Arabic inscriptions and Byzantine mosaics under a Norman roof.





This route works the north-west, which is the quieter half ’ a nature reserve of cliffs and coves, an island where the first underwater archaeological museum was laid out on the seabed, and the Aegadians, where prehistoric cave paintings sit above beaches nobody has developed.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Sicily; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Palermo

Palermo is loud, layered and quite unlike the rest of Italy. The Cappella Palatina alone justifies the morning. Eat street food at Ballaro ’ panelle, arancine, and things you may prefer not to identify ’ then a cocktail at Villa Igiea above the harbour, and sail west along the coast in the evening.
Day 2

San Vito Lo Capo & Zingaro

Round Capo Gallo to San Vito, a beach of white sand between limestone headlands. The Zingaro reserve next door was Sicily’s first, saved from a coast road by protest in 1980, and has seven coves reachable on foot or by tender. Tonnara di Scopello, an old tuna fishery, sits below its sea stacks.
Day 3

Ustica

Sixty kilometres north, Ustica is the tip of a volcano and Italy’s first marine reserve. Black lava rock, clear water and caves along the shore. At Cape Gavazzi an underwater archaeological trail lays out Roman anchors and amphorae where they were found. Dive it, then take a quiet evening at anchor.
Day 4

Mozia

South to the Stagnone lagoon near Marsala, where salt pans and windmills stand in shallow water. Mozia was a Phoenician trading city on an island, destroyed in 397 BC and never rebuilt over. The Motya Charioteer, a Greek marble of extraordinary quality, was found here. Marsala wine and seafood ashore.
Day 5

Favignana

The largest of the Aegadians, shaped like a butterfly, quarried for its tufa for centuries so that the interior is full of sunken gardens in old pits. Anchor at the Grotta Azzurra or Cala Rossa, where the water over white rock reads almost fluorescent. Tuna was the industry here; the tonnara is now a museum.
Day 6

Levanzo & Marettimo

Levanzo has one village and the Grotta del Genovese, whose painted and incised figures are eleven thousand years old. Marettimo is the furthest out, mountainous, with no cars and a walking trail along the ridge. Snorkel at Punta Cortiglio. These are the emptiest anchorages of the week.
Day 7

Return to Palermo

Sail back east, stopping at a cove for a last swim in water that has been the same temperature and colour all week. Palermo in the afternoon: the markets, a granita, and the noise of a city that has never once tried to be charming. Sicily is not a pretty island. It is a great one.

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