Can you imagine the beauty of spend some days on an island without cars? Yes, that’s right: no parking lots, busy streets, traffic and parking tickets.<\/p>\n
If you have never experienced a car free vacation, here are 3 italian\u00a0islands Italian from which you can start. From Sicily to the Alps, you can choose to feel shipwrecked in a wild nature or wander through ancient villages of fishermen, forgetting for a few days the traffic noise.<\/p>\n
It was once a volcano off about 5 square kilometers. Today is the westernmost island of the Aeolian dell’arcipleago. The island is inhabited only by the sea, where there are villages and where the ferries from Palermo and Naples.<\/p>\n
The most important thing on the island there are no cars or roads, just paths between stone walls, wild flowers, vines and cactus. The only means of transport are the mule, which have replaced the donkeys, less robust, and that carry material in different points of the island.<\/p>\n
The beaches are pebbles and rocks, and they are almost all reachable only by sea. The only beach within walking distance is the sandy beach of Porto Alicudi.<\/p>\n
The boat tour of the island offers an unforgettable sight of his great nature. You will admire the towering cliffs of the north-western coast that rise almost vertically up to 500 or 550 meters; the “Scoglio Galera”, rich in flora and fauna; the “Sciara dell’Arpa”, which falls into the sea from the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n
The only village\u00a0on the island, also called Alicudi<\/strong>, consists of five small contrade. Among these, the Contrada Pianicello <\/strong>has\u00a0the electricity supplied by photovoltaic and rainwater harvesting using ancient reservoirs of the houses, and the Contrada Sgurbio, consisting of five houses, each of which has the name of one of the 5 senses .<\/p>\n The inhabitants of the island are around a hundred<\/strong>, and most of them have recovered the traditional crops, such as grapes and olives. In mid-August they celebrate San Bartolo<\/strong> with events all over the island. During this event a heavy statue of olive is brought painfully to shoulder along bridleways, reciting prayers and traditional songs. The festival ends with a spectacular fireworks display over the sea and a public dance on the pier.<\/p>\n Every year, during Ferragosto (August 15th)\u00a0has become the famous flea market of Alicudi<\/strong>, in which, besides the trinkets and clothes, there are artists and fortune tellers, traditional dishes cooked by seafood chefs, local produce, such as capers and baskets of privet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t