SAILING VACATIONS IN ITALY -CALABRIA MUNICIPALITY OF BELVEDERE MARITTIMO
We will start our sailing vacations in Belvedere Marittimo.
Belvedere Marittimo with its small port can take in three-metre long boats during summertime.
In front of our eyes small villages, such as Sangineto, Bonifati and Cittadella del Capo follow one another; one can reach them by going up along winding roads. We might as well drop anchor of our sailing boat near grotta delle Colonne (cavern of Columns) or the Rizzi cavern, a squared cliff from where it is absolutely worth diving.
Eventually, we sight the safe port of Cetraro, used by a large fleet of fishing boats, whose capacity can take in ships of considerable size and where basic services are provided, such as refuelling and highly skilled mechanical and electrical assistance.
CETRARO
Our Italy sailing vacations adventure will continue to next stop. Our seafaring imagination flies to the ancient name of this small village, Citrarium, that is the village where citrons are grown, and find ourselves daydreaming and fantasizing about travelers and rabbis coming from the synagogues scattered along the coast and other Mediterranean countries, who used to come over here to get the perfumed and delicious fruit for their feasts. And while rabbis, comfortably stretched out under citron trees carefully examined fruits looking for any possible flaws, mariners used to eat mint-seasoned pilchards, drink Cetraro red wine and «scirubette» made with citron juice.
The village of Cetraro, as marine tradition has it, is a point of reference for the observation of weather changes. In the villages located along the coast, to the south of Cetraro, fishermen still today, during their excursions to sea, scan the ominous clouds and flashes of lightning coming from the mountains overlooking the village, and usually say: «Quandu lampa 'o Citraru ricogghjiti 'o pagghjiaru», meaning: «When thunderbolts are seen striking over Cetraro, you had better stop at the nearest port».
Our sailing vacations trip now heads for Acquappesa, goes beyond Intavolata, then the Waldesian village of Guardia Piemontese, Fuscaldo and Paola, which has become internationally known as the birthplace of san Francesco, the monk who crossed the Straits between Scylla and Charybdis using his cloak as a sailing boat.
Then we decide it's time we stop for a break at the Blue oasis of the Isca rocks, near Amantea and, on a rubber dinghy, we get ashore where a great number of other dinghies are moored. We wander and nose round the village, looking for Arabian nights' ambience (the small village was once the seat of a seventeenth-century emirate) and for the «mustica», a dish that was served in a bowl named «mustica», after the Arab word mosteqo, «bowl». Here one can try two of the many Calabrian specialities: dry chocolate-coated figs -stuffed with almonds and walnuts -, and high-quality DOC wines from the Savuto valley.
Here we will finished our first part of sailing vacations in Calabria (Italy).
We will start our sailing vacations in Belvedere Marittimo.
Belvedere Marittimo with its small port can take in three-metre long boats during summertime.
In front of our eyes small villages, such as Sangineto, Bonifati and Cittadella del Capo follow one another; one can reach them by going up along winding roads. We might as well drop anchor of our sailing boat near grotta delle Colonne (cavern of Columns) or the Rizzi cavern, a squared cliff from where it is absolutely worth diving.
Eventually, we sight the safe port of Cetraro, used by a large fleet of fishing boats, whose capacity can take in ships of considerable size and where basic services are provided, such as refuelling and highly skilled mechanical and electrical assistance.
CETRARO
Our Italy sailing vacations adventure will continue to next stop. Our seafaring imagination flies to the ancient name of this small village, Citrarium, that is the village where citrons are grown, and find ourselves daydreaming and fantasizing about travelers and rabbis coming from the synagogues scattered along the coast and other Mediterranean countries, who used to come over here to get the perfumed and delicious fruit for their feasts. And while rabbis, comfortably stretched out under citron trees carefully examined fruits looking for any possible flaws, mariners used to eat mint-seasoned pilchards, drink Cetraro red wine and «scirubette» made with citron juice.
The village of Cetraro, as marine tradition has it, is a point of reference for the observation of weather changes. In the villages located along the coast, to the south of Cetraro, fishermen still today, during their excursions to sea, scan the ominous clouds and flashes of lightning coming from the mountains overlooking the village, and usually say: «Quandu lampa 'o Citraru ricogghjiti 'o pagghjiaru», meaning: «When thunderbolts are seen striking over Cetraro, you had better stop at the nearest port».
Our sailing vacations trip now heads for Acquappesa, goes beyond Intavolata, then the Waldesian village of Guardia Piemontese, Fuscaldo and Paola, which has become internationally known as the birthplace of san Francesco, the monk who crossed the Straits between Scylla and Charybdis using his cloak as a sailing boat.
Then we decide it's time we stop for a break at the Blue oasis of the Isca rocks, near Amantea and, on a rubber dinghy, we get ashore where a great number of other dinghies are moored. We wander and nose round the village, looking for Arabian nights' ambience (the small village was once the seat of a seventeenth-century emirate) and for the «mustica», a dish that was served in a bowl named «mustica», after the Arab word mosteqo, «bowl». Here one can try two of the many Calabrian specialities: dry chocolate-coated figs -stuffed with almonds and walnuts -, and high-quality DOC wines from the Savuto valley.
Here we will finished our first part of sailing vacations in Calabria (Italy).
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