Nature and Culture in Terrasini
Terrasini can boast an high level naturalistic estate: the coast, perhaps the most beautiful of all Sicily, is still unknown to the mass and presents an unique feature thanks to the colors changing from white to burned red, that gain unique shades on changing the sunlight: shining and luminous in the morning, rich of light and shade and shadowy during the hot and flushed sicilian sunset. This aquarelle gets a greater quality if you look the background of a changing color sea, from emerald to cobalt blue.
The coast of Terrasini is extended from a beach (the Ciucca) till another one, San Cataldo. Our coast alternates enchanting rock bays and high and steep crags on sea. Moreover is “controlled” by ancient and majestic sighting towers, that was used to warm the people of pirates or terrible Saracens attacks The sighting system, really clever, provides a tower in every strategic point of the landscape, always keeping the towers visual communication, so as to pass on the signal light in the whole territory, in an emergency.
Let’s talk again about the nature; after the coast we need to cite the landscape behind, that has an unique flora and fauna example: The Natural Oriented Reserve of Capo Rama Biotope, managed by the WWF that established a charming oasis in a place rightly defined “inestimable biotope”.

About fauna, the area hosts the typical rocky coast fauna. It’s worth noting various kind of reptiles, seagulls (Larus Argentatus), swifts (Apus Apus), crested larks (Galerida Cristata) and kestrels (Flaco tinnunculus). The grottos host some bats colonies, but there are also foxes (Vulpes Vulpes) and rabbits (Oryctolagus Cuniculus).
About flora, we can say there is a shrubby and discontinuous vegetation, with a reef area and a plateau one in which there are many dwarf palms, distinguishing mark of the reserve.
The Reserve is 2 km far from the city centre towards west, free admittance. Group guided tour needs the booking (phone 0039 091 8685187).
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