Marzamemi

The name comes from the Arabic Marsà al-hamām, bay of turtle doves, because the area sits on their migration route.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century a small port was built beside the tuna fishery and the seventeenth century manor of the princes of Villadorata. Around the little square, fishermen’s houses have become holiday homes and trattorias.

Tuna is the speciality that made the village known well beyond its borders. On summer evenings the square fills up, but a short walk is enough to find the quiet again.