The Castellammare coast
CalaCapreria
The first cove of the Zingaro coming from the south.
It lies near the southern entrance to the Zingaro Reserve and the natural history museum, and is much loved by families with children.
The Zingaro, established in 1981, is the first nature reserve in Sicily: it exists because in 1980 a large protest march stopped the coastal road between Scopello and San Vito Lo Capo. That is why today it is one of the very few stretches of Sicilian coast with no road.
The Zingaro runs along 7 km of coast and almost 1,700 hectares, with cliffs reaching the 913 metres of Monte Speziale and dropping steeply to the sea. The last farming family lived here until about 1960, and even today goods are carried by mule.
This cove is the first door to the reserve: from here the coast continues north with Cala del Varo, Cala della Disa, Cala Berretta, Cala Marinella, Cala dell'Uzzo and Cala Tonnarella.