White pearls emerging from the sea, lands where time has been suspended for decades ago,
islands far from the world and always present in the heart of anyone who sees them at least
once. Here, where the sea glitters
Also known as Diomedee, the Tremiti Islands represent a small corner
of paradise that attracts thousands of tourists every year thanks to the clear
sea, the clean seabed, the pleasant climate, the pure air,
the luxuriant vegetation, the still wild and uncontaminated nature,
the bays and headlands,low and sandy coasts, but also
high and rocky with cliffs overlooking the sea.
Between a dip in crystal clear waters and a sunbath in
one of the many romantic coves, it looks like an
exotic destination.
The archipelago consists of five islands: San Domino,
San Nicola, Capraia, Cretaccio and Pianosa.
THE ISLAND OF SAN DOMINO
San Domino, the largest island, is the most beautiful from a landscape and naturalistic
point of view, covered as it is by a forest of Aleppo pines, so much so that it was once
called the Garden of Paradise by the Benedictine monks. Around the island we find the
Grotta del Bue Marino, the Grotta delle Viole, the Grotta delle Rondinelle, all of which
can be visited by boa.
THE ISLAND OF SAN NICOLA
San Nicola, considered an open-air museum, rich in monuments, is testimony to the
history of the islands: towers, imposing fortifications, walls, churches and cloisters
of a fortress-abbey, Santa Maria a Mare, which holds a significant historical and
artistic interest .
THE ISLAND OF CAPRAIA
Capraia is considered a small geological paradise , as it is the only volcanic island
of the Archipelago that is the result of a double eruption. Steep coasts overlooking
the sea, suggestive rocks bare by the erosion of the wind and the sea, document the
succession of eruptions and lava stratifications. All this is clearly visible in the
famous Cala Rossa,certainly one of the most particular coves of the Archipelago.
THE ISLAND OF CRERACCIO
Cretaccio is the smallest island of the arcipelago; it's a yellow, uninhabited island,
devoid of vegetation. The island is placed between the island of San Domino and the island
of San Nicola and here there some of the most attractive legends of the Tremiti Islands.
Indeed, uninhabited it would be populated by ghosts. It is said that here, in the past,
a prisoner was executed, whose ghost come back during the stormy nights holding in the
hands its head decapited. Furthermore, a few meters from the coast there's the rock
"La Vecchia": a black rock that is said it belonged to an old witch.
THE ISLAND OF PIANOSA
Pianosa is rocky plateau which is completely uninhabited. It is part of the Integral
Marine Reserve: this implies, within 500 meters from the island, a ban on landing and
navigation, an absolute ban on fishing and a ban on diving, unless accompanied by
authorized diving guides.
LUCIO DALLA AND THE TREMITI ISLANDS
Lucio Dalla's musica in the quiet of the Tremiti islands
"It was during these holidays as an upside-down emigrant that the rift between
two different ways of living occurred in me. So today I find myself with two
souls: the northern one (orderly, efficient, futuristic, perfectionist, demanding
towards oneself and towards others) and the southern one (disordered, wild, sensual,
dreamlike, mystical). It is in the south that I became religious, of a frenzied,
irrational, pagan religiosity"
This is how Lucio Dalla describes in an interview his
relationship with Apulia and in particular with the
place that during his life was his refuge: the Tremiti
islands . A visceral bond, which has its roots in the
story of his mother, originally from Manfredonia, the
city where the Bolognese poet and songwriter lived for
a period of his life with his parents. A love born in
the fifties, until the end of its days. Lucio Dalla
took advantage of the quiet, the sea and the peace
that only an uncontaminated, evocative and idyllic environment like the Tremiti islands
he could give and took refuge in one of his villas, one in San Domino and one in San
Nicola. Houses where some of his most beautiful songs were born: Piazza Grande,
How deep the sea.
About Author
Giovanna
Studentessa dell'università San Domenico di Foggia.
Amo viaggiare e scoprire costantemente nuove culture, nuovi posti.
I think that the Tremiti islands are an extremely beautiful and exotic place, a paradise in the water! For those who love the sea, the nature, this is the perfect place!
San Nicola, Capraia, Cretaccio and Pianosa.
THE ISLAND OF SAN NICOLA San Nicola, considered an open-air museum, rich in monuments, is testimony to the history of the islands: towers, imposing fortifications, walls, churches and cloisters of a fortress-abbey, Santa Maria a Mare, which holds a significant historical and artistic interest .
THE ISLAND OF CAPRAIA Capraia is considered a small geological paradise , as it is the only volcanic island of the Archipelago that is the result of a double eruption. Steep coasts overlooking the sea, suggestive rocks bare by the erosion of the wind and the sea, document the succession of eruptions and lava stratifications. All this is clearly visible in the famous Cala Rossa,certainly one of the most particular coves of the Archipelago.
THE ISLAND OF CRERACCIO Cretaccio is the smallest island of the arcipelago; it's a yellow, uninhabited island, devoid of vegetation. The island is placed between the island of San Domino and the island of San Nicola and here there some of the most attractive legends of the Tremiti Islands. Indeed, uninhabited it would be populated by ghosts. It is said that here, in the past, a prisoner was executed, whose ghost come back during the stormy nights holding in the hands its head decapited. Furthermore, a few meters from the coast there's the rock "La Vecchia": a black rock that is said it belonged to an old witch.
THE ISLAND OF PIANOSA Pianosa is rocky plateau which is completely uninhabited. It is part of the Integral Marine Reserve: this implies, within 500 meters from the island, a ban on landing and navigation, an absolute ban on fishing and a ban on diving, unless accompanied by authorized diving guides.
LUCIO DALLA AND THE TREMITI ISLANDS Lucio Dalla's musica in the quiet of the Tremiti islands "It was during these holidays as an upside-down emigrant that the rift between two different ways of living occurred in me. So today I find myself with two souls: the northern one (orderly, efficient, futuristic, perfectionist, demanding towards oneself and towards others) and the southern one (disordered, wild, sensual, dreamlike, mystical). It is in the south that I became religious, of a frenzied, irrational, pagan religiosity"
This is how Lucio Dalla describes in an interview his relationship with Apulia and in particular with the place that during his life was his refuge: the Tremiti islands . A visceral bond, which has its roots in the story of his mother, originally from Manfredonia, the city where the Bolognese poet and songwriter lived for a period of his life with his parents. A love born in the fifties, until the end of its days. Lucio Dalla took advantage of the quiet, the sea and the peace that only an uncontaminated, evocative and idyllic environment like the Tremiti islands he could give and took refuge in one of his villas, one in San Domino and one in San Nicola. Houses where some of his most beautiful songs were born: Piazza Grande, How deep the sea.
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I think that the Tremiti islands are an extremely beautiful and exotic place, a paradise in the water! For those who love the sea, the nature, this is the perfect place!
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