Of the modern marinas built along Sicily’s southern coast, Marina di Ragusa stands out for pairing genuinely serious yachting infrastructure with one of the richest concentrations of Baroque culture found anywhere on the island.
Of all the stops covered in our guide to the best yacht spots in Sicily, Marzamemi is the one visitors tend to remember most fondly despite its modest size.
Sitting at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, closer to North Africa than to Rome, Sicily offers a genuinely different yachting experience from anywhere else in Italian waters: a coastline that…
Livorno rarely gets the postcard treatment other Tuscan coastal towns receive, and that’s mostly because it never tried to be one.
Viareggio sits at the northern end of the Tuscan coast, and it plays a genuinely different role than the harbor towns further south.
Porto Santo Stefano is the livelier of the two harbor towns on Monte Argentario, the rugged, once-island promontory that anchors the southern end of the Tuscan coast, and it wears that reputation well.
For most visitors arriving from the mainland, whether by ferry from Piombino or by boat from a marina like Scarlino, Portoferraio is the first proper look at Elba, and it makes a strong first impression.
Of all the marinas strung along the Tuscan coast, Marina di Scarlino tends to get mentioned as a practical waypoint rather than a destination in its own right, a useful stop on the way to somewhere else. That reputation undersells it.
Most visitors build a Tuscany itinerary entirely inland, moving between Florence, the Chianti hills, and a handful of walled medieval towns without ever glancing toward the coast.
Sicily’s coastline runs for over 1,000 kilometres, and almost none of it looks the same twice.