Portopalo of Capo Passero still offers the wild beauty of a nature to the visitor for long lines lacking from contaminations as the small coves and the rocky ravines that the lovers of the sea have to cross obligatorily in their trip in this country. The bluffs in the zone Scalo Mandrie are for a long time destination of tourists for the transparency and the freshness of sea.

Then the rocky shore surrenders the place to the sand: we are to the beach of the country, always in the zone Scalo Mandrie, where numerous archaeological finds testimonianti has been recovered the presence of very ancient civilization. It deals with the rests of an ancient Greek Roman tonnara , and the great tubs served for the workmanship of the tuna and the preparation of a kind of sauce, the garum.

In front of the beach here is the unmistakable outline of the Island of Capo Passero, once attached to the dry land and today raggiungibilè through of the special services shuttle or also with the it pedaled. The coast that turns to the country has an enchanting beach, while on the other side the tall bluffs they are very suggestive, in the qulis small caves are dug in which the sea plays with spectacular reflexes of light.

On the island of Capo Passero is risen stately the Castle Fortitude of Charles V°, outpost for the sighting of the pirates that you/they infested the Mediterranean in 1500. To seven kilometers around from the country there is the "Correnti Island" (preferred destination by the surfers) that, for the vegetation and the particular conformation of sandy dunes, it represents a real small piece of African landscape.

Always continuing for that line of coast a long beach meets him: the beach of Carratois. Returning in country, we remember the Church of St. Gaetano, the Tonnara, the Fishing Harbour. We recommend you to make a turn of the coast of portopalo afoot however: only so you can understand because it is difficult to leave again from this country...