Pantelleria Island - the black pearl of the Mediterranean island

PANTELLERIA (6 hours by ship from Trapani):
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the great explosion in the heart of the Mediterranean reveals the top of a submarine volcano. It is so violent that Pantelleria, the black pearl of the Mediterranean island, born from the sea, by magma, lava glowing. Even today the volcano makes tourists feel his presence. Indeed continuing secondary volcanic phenomena throughout: fumaroles or jets of water vapor that reaches very high temperatures.
The fumaroles inside caves calls stoves are considered real saunas as the "Toilet dry" on the stove or Siba khazen of Pantelleria, black lava rock and obsidian, but green island for the rich vegetation, the most famous grapes Zibibbo from which it is produced valuable Passito Muscat today protected by DOC.
The sea is one of the most famous attractions of Pantelleria for the clarity of water, the coast full of coves and breathtaking views. Lake of Venus with its sludge rich in minerals, offers one of the most beautiful landscapes of the island. His land has known the footsteps of Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans. The first people to live Pantelleria was the so- called people of Sesi whose settlement on the island dates back to about 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic age.