Marettimo,
a mountain from the steep and scoscese limestone
walls constitutes the island. Schiva of
the Egadi, that it only opens its doors
to the more curious tourists, it possesses
a small port and no hotel. The possibility
of soggiornarvi is offered from the houses
of the fishermen who on hand put the rooms
of the visitors. To the feet of the mountain
the city small is tightened harbour call
anch'essa Marettimo, from the white women
cubical small houses to terrace. Behind
the Nuovo Port of call (it puts into effect
them berthing point) finds the Old Port
of call, used from the fishermen. From Punta_Troia
is noticed here crowned from the ruins of
a castle of Spanish age (XVII sec.), used
like jail until 1844. A series of paths
impervi (but percorribili also to ass back)
inside leads on the heights of the island,
favoring the contact with the incontaminata
nature and offering charming sights. Turn
of the island in boat - the excursion (the
many fishermen who offer themselves, to
the port) it allows to discover the numerous
coves that they characterize the coast and
that they are opened on walls scoscese,
between which they detach the Cove of the
Camel, with on the gravel bottom spiaggetta,
a Cove of the Thunder, the Perciata Cove,
and in particular the Cove of the Presepio,
therefore called for the full of rocks conformations
that for the action of the water and the
wind have assumed the shape of statuine
of the presepio.
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