Vendicari was like a party.

We went there by boat with all the relatives for some gargantuan picnics, according to a family tradition going back to the dawn of time.

The sandy seabed and the crystal clear water, shallow and warm, so that you have to walk a long time before you get to the deep end, were fine for us kids because there seemed to be "offshore".  The backdrops of the "Spinazza" [the beach of Marzamemi, n.d.t.], in front, a few Km away, are more various and tangled, with large meadows of Posidonia, interspersed with rocks and shallows. At that time I didn't know but in Spiazza I had the best snorkeling of my life, amongst octopuses, flounders, moray eels and fish of every size and form, that I couldn'ìt identify. Anyway, Vendicari had a special charm.

And it's also the History: in Vendicari you take a bath under below the remains of the "Tonnara" [Tuna fishery, n.d.t.] and of the Torre Sveva [Swabian Tower] (the latter probably dating back to the early 1400 and built against Saracen and Barbay pirates incursions). The tuna fishery, named also “Bafutu”, was built in the seventeenth period, even if, like the one of Marzamemi, follows the Arabian model.