Note for his/her centralità in the Mediterranean Sea, intermediary port between Africa and SiciliaPantelleria, island of volcanic origin, is characterized for the extraordinary singleness of its landscape in which to the natural elements the manufactured articles are added created by the man to live and to pick up abundant and only agricultural crops; you wall up to dry; the Gardens panteschi, the dammusis.
The shortage of water that is not piovana doesn't favor the development of great vegetative zones. It grows you spontaneous a variety of said caper of Pantelleria, appreciated and known everywhere, that represents also today one of the principal cultivations of the island. The volcanic ground favors the growth of particularly proper vines for to produce wines of good gradation; very known the Muscat one and the Passito of Pantelleria gotten with the use of the famous and exclusive zibibbo.
The symbol of Pantelleria is the arc of the elephant. It deals with a strange rocky formation that resembles in unbelievable way to the trunk of an elephant.
One of the most enchanting and only places that he/she offers the island of Pantelleria are surely the Lake Mirror of Venus (maximum depth 12 meters), where the level of its waters is middly of 2 meters on the level of the sea and you/he/she is fed both from the thermal sources and from the rains. The Lake, in the part north of Pantelleria, represents a splendid sight and contributes to a vacation to the insignia of the comfort thanks to its warm sources (with varying temperature between the 40°C and the 50°C.) and to his/her natural muds.
The lake of Pantelleria is found in the crater of an ancient volcano (it occupies the fund of a depression of origin calderica).Thanks to this particularity, on the South bank where the thermal sources are assembled, its waters are warm and saturated of sulphur with the backdrop of the marginal band rich in mud black-greenish rich in nourishing (thanks to the deposits of algae termofile, from the characteristic odor of sulphur) substances from the precious beneficent ownerships for the skin.

Religious Tourism

- Patron Saints and Patron Saint Days: San Fortunato on october 16.