Syracuse: beautiful places to visit and to have a dip! My holiday in Sicily...tips (second part).


Our favourite Wild Beach…yellow rocks because of the sulfur

Yesterday I told you about: eating well spending a little in Syracuse, and today I’d like to post you some pictures about my favourite beaches in Syracuse and some beautiful places I visited with my family.

There are 3 negative aspects about Sicily that I think could be important to know when coming here on holiday.

The first one: Sicily is not only a beautiful place with breathtaking views and pristine and wilderness nature. There is another Sicily meeting every day: is that one about waste everywhere, trash thrown along the streets as on the beaches. And so it happens that you swim in a beautiful sea, clean and transparent and pull on some plastic bag or something else.

During my holidays I saw many times people in the cars waiting at the traffic light, open the door and overthrow the full ashtray over the asphalt.
The second one: the problem of stray dogs. As well as for management of garbage, so also for the protection of animals, in Sicily are still about 50 years ago.
It can happen to encounter gangs of stray dogs on the street, as in the center of the city.
Despite the presence on the territory of Legambiente (an office was close to where I was staying), no one cares to trace the microchip of a dog or to provide against this dangerous phenomenon.
What shocked me was seeing from my car window while we were going to the airport, a stray Newfoundland, rummaging in the garbage together with 5 other dogs, even with the collar at the neck and also the medal. It was definitely a dog belonged to some tourists and lost a few months ago, but no one has ever bothered to see what was written on that medal!

The third one: I love wild beaches, as you can find in Maremma (South of Tuscany); free beaches, no bathing facilities, unspoiled, with trunks of trees here and there, and maybe boars in the nearby pine forest.

I know that nowadays it is impossible to find deserted and beautiful beaches, but my goal is always to find places where the distance between an umbrella and another is not less than 6 meters.
Here in Syracuse this is virtually impossible.
Because of mass tourism with the arrival of tripadvisor, with the many travel blogs and forums about discussions on holidays, now everyone knows where to find the paradise. The result is that everywhere, even in the hardest beaches to reach, often your beach towel is located at a distance less than 1 meter from that of another person or family.

You can tell to the Sicilians in every way that you’d like them to inform you about unspoiled beaches, but there’ll be always crowded beaches in their suggestions…because Sicilians like bathing establishments, solarium points, bars on the beach and they rarely understand you’d appreciate a different kind of living the sea.

We found our beloved beaches going and traveling by car to discover new places. And we discovered many times that many places we found are not even known by the locals.

That’s why I will not be very specific in giving you the names of some places … however, if you are interested in a sea place or a beach in particular, you’ve just sending me an email and I’ll be happy to answer.
If you’re looking for a marvellous sea, clean and transparent, you’re however in the right place, everywhere in Sicily.
The most crowded beaches in Syracuse: Fontane Bianche, S. Lorenzo, Arenella however benefit a wonderful, incredible, sea.