Usually, nothing changes on this sleepy Italian island. But Italy’s newest national park is gently shifting Pantelleria from a summer seaside destination to a year-round nature idyll
sually, nothing changes on this sleepy Italian island—a volcanic speck in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, buffeted by winds that have whittled its peaks into a rippling green landscape and sculpted its black lava flows into a shape-shifting coastline. People bathe in warm thermal seawater as they have for centuries; live ingrape, thought to have been brought over from Egypt by past Arabic residents.
The park is gently shifting Pantelleria from a summer seaside destination to a year-round nature idyll, where Mediterranean scrub gives way to orchids and arbutus trees, and warm mist wafts from the mountainsides. In 2023, the park introduced e-bike rentals to help visitors tackle the hilly terrain and bypass summer traffic jams on the cliff roads.
An exhibit of finds from the Sesi Archeological Park—a Bronze Age burial site—has recently opened in the island’s tiny Museo Vulcanologico, and a virtual reality room exploring Mediterranean ecology debuts this summer. It’s an easier journey now too. The 7.5-hour overnight ferry or puddle-jumper plane from Sicily was joined in 2022 by summer flights from Rome and Milan on Italy’s new national carrier, ITA Airways, with connections to most Italian cities.
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