Vulcano
La storia
The island with hot springs and curative mud, destination for sports alongside the beauty of its waters that the volcano, whose rise offers a spectacle, perhaps without equal, as the view from the surrounding islands and isthmus that connects volcano Vulcanello.
There are so many attractions, the island's diverse landscape that offers, according to the side chosen, but it is the navigation that allows access to the most beautiful places in the Grotta del Cavallo, the pool of Venus, the beaches to the south and the many creeks to the west.
In this island of 21 square km, Greek mythology ranged the forge of Hephaestus, god of fire and blacksmith, who had for assistants for Cyclops. The island is named after the Roman god Vulcan and that is where the term comes volcanism. The island has indeed its existence to the fusion of four volcanoes in the largest and the most active is the Fossa of Vulcano, which dominates its 391 meters of reddish stone.
It joins the smaller Vulcanello (123 m), emerged to form a small and round the peninsula to the north in 183 BC The special form of volcanic activity, characterized by acid wash and a series of explosions in which the cap is thrown upward, followed by red-hot boulders, was given the name of volcanic activity.
Although the last eruption occurred in 1890, the volcano has continued to demonstrate its vitality and even today you observe different phenomena: geysers, jets of steam is on the submarine ridge (see the Levante Beach) and presence of sludge from sulfur appreciated therapeutic properties. The coast, so jagged in some places seems to be the tentacles that are immersed in the sea, the colors of the rock from red to yellow ocher and lonely and desolate places give island a disturbing and savage beauty Leaving from Porto di Levante is passed near the slopes of the crater, you immediately notice the gases emitted from fumaroles of Old Forge. Beyond the promontory of black points is the Cala where red ends the R. Great.
Overcoming tip Lucca are many capes and bays for up to the beach Gelso, here you meet a hot spring at the mouth of the valley and the source of Paparotti Schicciola giving a few drops of water to vegetation. Arriving in Punta Flag Start the terracing and some abandoned house and passed the port of New Mulberry catches your eye the lighthouse. Exceeded then the old man begins the coast of Faro Conigliaro full of rocks and shallows to reach the tip of the same name. After rounding this point we find the cave of the Abbot, the coast is less steep and the terraces found abandoned. Long runs along the beach, between the tip of Cape nell'insenatura Secco big head and the head is the cave of the Horse.
In this cave you can enter with a small boat and go on till the end, savoring the evocative effects of light in the afternoon. Proceeding yet we still find small bays and headlands along the jagged coast, there are many rocks that reach into the sea and leaving isolated peaks up to the Great Faraglione di Ponente dell'Amenano place at the port of the same name. The tour around the island full of Vulcanello: Lena you see the other side, closer to Lipari and the tip of Rovereto, has resisted the collapse of the crater NO Vulcanello. Overcome other sources and fumaroles falls in the port of the east.
