Blue and clean water in Cefalu. Guaranteed by jellyfish.
Just as the summer season is upon us, on some beaches of Cefalu is taking a mysterious phenomenon that has intrigued some swimmers who began photographing some blue jellyfishes.
A jellyfish's colony of the species "Velella Velella" has, in fact, caught the eye of tourists and some bathers on the beach in the last week of April.
Cefalu's Cathedral nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site
"In Sicily,'' Giovanni Puglisi went on to say,''over its millennial history, no religious-cultural experience was ever eliminated".
The announcement was made by the head of the commission, Sicily native Giovanni Puglisi. ''This result,'' he said, ''not only adds more value to a territory that undoubtedly deserves a better future than what has been handed to it by the political mishaps of the past few years, it also inserts into UNESCO World Heritage a one-of-a-kind site, since the Byzantine and Arab-Norman heritage in Palermo's historical and artistic sites is the only one in the world with its cultural syncretism spanning religious and political divides.''
Cefalu main sights: ancient palaces
We will now start a tour through Cefalu's main sights and through the surrounding towns, tucked away into the Madonie Park, to offer you some suggestions for your holiday in our apartments.
In this article we would start the journey with the ancient palaces in Cefalu.
Cefalu is a snail
It is difficult to imagine a more close and indissoluble connection between a town and an element of the landscape in which it is immersed, than the one that exists between Cefalù and its promontory, "la Rocca". A rock formation of about 250 meters, magnificent and wild, riddled with caves and ravines, topped with Mediterranean vegetation, la Rocca overlooks and dominates Cefalù, offering among other things, an incomparable natural background to that man-made miracle that is the Norman cathedral – the Duomo.