The Nebrodi in a day: what lies behind the coast
86,000 hectares of beech forest, lakes and pastures, with mountain roads that climb from sea level to 1,300 metres in an hour. It's the other half of the holiday, and almost nobody uses it.
Written by the family of B&B del Corso, who live in Capo d'Orlando
The classic day
Drive up to Portella Femmina Morta, walk the Lago Biviere loop, lunch at a mountain agriturismo, back down in the afternoon for a swim. All you need is the car.
The water variant
The Catafurco waterfall above Galati Mamertino: half an hour's walk, a thirty-metre drop, an ice-cold pool. Best in spring.
The villages
Naso, San Marco d'Alunzio with its churches and red marble, Galati Mamertino, Longi. These are living villages, not reconstructions: visit in the morning or late afternoon.
What you eat up there
Nebrodi provola cheese, black pork, mushrooms in autumn, maiorchino and fresh ricotta. The mountain agriturismi work by reservation: call the same morning. Everything there is to do in the Nebrodi → · The three-lake round →
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Two rainy days in July, ten in December. But the day it happens only ruins a holiday for people who don't know where to go: the museums, the villages, the waterfall that rain makes better, and why the sea stays cloudy after it stops.
Related destinations: Nebrodi Park, Capo d'Orlando.
The day the sea is up
When the sea refuses, you go up instead.
This is the real reason to base yourself on the coast rather than on an island: if the sea is running and the excursions are cancelled, the day is not lost — behind us there are a thousand metres of climb and the beech forests. And the house e-bikes make those metres a great deal shorter.
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