The highest summit of the island descends to the west with terraced cultivation of grain and olives, while the eastern side of the island is unreachable and uninhabited. The Panarea of today is only part of what once existed. A portion of it was sunken by the explosion of the volcano, forming a small archipelago of little islands.
Panarea is an island entirely suited to people. Here, cars cannot circulate, with the exception of electrical vehicles that transport tourists and merchandise.
In a few minutes you arrive to the sea or you can reach the beautiful beach of Cala degli Zimmari. From here, a path with steps leads to the promontory of Capo Milazzese. On the right of the promontory, Cala Junco is hidden, the most beautiful and attractive inlet of Panarea: it is a natural pool formed in the basalt reefs, in which green, blue and the turquoise always show in a prismatic combination.
Don’t miss the ruins of the prehistoric village of Punta Milazzese. There are 23 oval stone huts dating back to the Bronze Age (1400 B.C.). The place chosen by this community has no equal: it was truly a natural impenetrable fortress and a commercial port for trade between Greece and the western Mediterranean.
At Club Verde Blu you could find all the services for your excursion to the other islands, go diving even to a shipwreck between the offshore rocks of Lisca Bianca and Bottaro, and take a boat to visit the archipelago of islets in front of the port.
- Lisca Bianca is called this for the light color of the rock, due to the millennial activity of the Fumaroles. The fumaroles are still active today in the area between Dattilo, Bottaro and Lisca Bianca, at 20 meters in depth.
- Dattilo is in the shape of a pyramid and has cavern with sulfur and crystalline alum.
- The island of Basiluzzo is the furthest from Panarea, a great volcanic reef with rocky walls at the point of the sea on which are noted the stratifications of the various lava drips. Viewed from the sea, it has a sinister aspect, but actually in the past the island was cultivated and suited for grazing, and was certainly inhabited, as the ruins of a Roman villa attesting who had ever chosen Panarea as his summer dwelling.
- Bottaro: Just north, at sea, is the source of “quadari” (boilers), which can be observed when the sea is calm.
- Lisca Nera so called because of the color of the rock, is a small rock.
- Panarelli: group of 5 rocks of a NNE Dattilo.
- The Formiche: another group of 4 small rocks to the east of Panarea.
