The island of Filicudi is the fifth largest island of the Aeolian archipelago and the second most western island of the archipelago (after Alicudi); it is located about 24 nautical miles west of Lipari. It is dominated by Mount Fossa delle Felci, an extinct volcano 773 m high. In addition to it, there are seven other volcanoes (La Sciara, Montagnola - Piano Sardo, Monte Terrione (also called "Torrione"), Monte Guardia, Capo Graziano, Monte Chiumento, Riberosse), all extinguished for a long time and consequence strongly marked by erosion. The population, about 200 inhabitants (which become 3000 in the summer season), is distributed between the centers of Filicudi Porto, Valdichiesa, Pecorini, Pecorini a mare, Canale and Rocca di Ciavoli, connected to each other by the only paved road on the island and from a dense network of pedestrian streets. The town of Stimpagnato, in the south-east of the island, is inhabited by tourists only during the summer.
Other smaller towns on the island are: Siccagni (accessible only from the sea and located to the west), Zucco Grande (ancient center in the north-east part of the island), Serra di Rando, Portella, Guardia, Le Punte, Rosa, Timpone , Smooth. The inhabitants are called filicudari and their dialect is the filicudaro. The ancient people of Sicily, until the early 1900s, also called it "Island of the devil" or "of the witches".
On the island the Mediterranean scrub consists of the caper, broom, olive tree, mastic, carob tree, Artemisia arborescens, Erysimum brulloi, Centaurea aeolica. Among the birds, the peregrine falcon, the lodolaio, the queen's falcon and the cuckoo falcon. Very interesting are the ruins of the Neolithic village on the promontory of Capo Graziano. Other ruins have recently been brought to light (always in the area of ​​Capo Graziano) which have taken the name of Ruins of Filobraccio. The finds found testify to the presence on the island, during the Neolithic period, of a flourishing industry and processing of obsidian. On the island there is a section of the Aeolian Archaeological Museum, with finds from the excavations of Capo Graziano and other areas of the Aeolian islands.
Island of Filicudi
Address: Contrada Pecorini A Mare, 98050
Phone: 090 988 9018
Site:
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