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Things to do in Stromboli Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Stromboli Italy. If you’are planning to visit Stromboli for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Stromboli and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Stromboli and its territory.  Share and suggest a place you've visited.

Excursions to the island of Stromboli

Stromboli Excursions
Stromboli Excursions

Stromboli, where according to legend Eolo lived, in size the fourth of the Aeolian Islands, a renowned tourist destination, & Grave; the emerged part of a volcano still active and is located off the northern coast of Sicily.

Today the island is inhabited mostly in the eastern part, towards Punta Lena, in correspondence to a flat area between the slopes of the volcano and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Two main hamlets, San Vincenzo, about 500 inhabitants, where the ships that supply the island and bring tourists dock, and Ginostra, smaller, with a few dozen houses and reachable only by sea.

You can stay in scenic hotels or rent houses and apartments. The main attraction of the island is the volcano, which can be visited safely accompanied by guides. A unique show that in the evening, by the will of the inhabitants who have decided to keep the lights off, it is possible to admire from all over the island.

The Strombolicchio is located a little further north of Stromboli and is a rock actually residual of an ancient volcanic fireplace, or stopper of the Stromboli volcano according to ancient legends. It houses a Marina lighthouse and can be visited during the tourist season. It is possible to swim in the coral seabed, a true paradise for divers.

The Church of San Vincenzo, reachable from the narrow coastal road, overlooks the typical Aeolian houses, small and pretty. From the terrace of the church of San Vincenzo you can see the Strombolicchio, in addition to the village of the island and the beautiful Tyrrhenian Sea.

written by John Maxwell - Last update: 25/10/2021
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Natural Areas

Sciara del Fuoco e Dorsale della Sciara

In Stromboli it is possible to visit the Sciara del Fuoco and the Ridge of Sciara. The first, it offers a wonderful morphological environment, with astroides, anemones, and sponges. The backdrop is black, dark, and it's easy to meet groupers, diamonds and moray eines. The walls are made of lava stone and you can see the lightning hedgehog, even if sporadically. The Sciara Ridge has two seabeds, one deeper than the other, both quite muddy and with walls covered with pentagon stars, very rare.

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