Italy’s southern island of Sicily is a huge 10 million square chunk of volcanic land in the Mediterranean with a population of five million. But off its northwestern coast are three small Aegadian ...

Known as the butterfly island due to its wing-like shape, Favignana is the largest of Italy’s Egadi islands. Its barren and desert-like landscape hides ancient secrets thousands of years old and its ...

The Egadi isles are said to have inspired the mythical islands in the Odyssey. Today, the largest of the group is a quiet place of blissful beaches, fresh fish, neon seas and ice-cream breakfasts I ...

Favignana, off the west coast of Sicily, is known for its stone quarries, clear waters and fabled fish. A writer explores by land and by water. Swimmers at Cala Bue Marino in Favignana, one of a group ...

A beautiful island which is visited regularly by European tourists but rarely sees any British visitors could be the perfect place for a relaxing getaway. Favignana Island in Sicily is one of three ...

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 film L'Avventura begins with seven friends—a wealthy group of gorgeous, disaffected youth—boating on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their affluence is visible in their languor, ...

Fresh seafood, cute hotels, and gorgeous sunsets. What more could you ask for?

Favignana is an Italian island of pale sand beaches, cliffsides covered in Mediterranean scrub and whitewashed hamlets. It was in this paradisiacal location that poet Homer’s Greek hero Odysseus came ...

Each spring, the fishermen of the little Italian island of Favignana go to sea to hunt giant tuna, which they harpoon and hoist on board their boats in a bloody ritual called the mattanza. A traveler ...

Speeding down a dirt road, the wind whipping my hair back, I wonder if I am brave enough to fulfil my childhood fantasy and go hands-free. But a sudden jolt from the e-bike beneath reminds me to keep ...