The smallest Egadi island and its prehistoric cave art
Levanzo, the smallest of the Egadi Islands, is a quiet world of white houses around a tiny harbour, a few paths and coves of transparent water such as Cala Fredda and Cala Minnola, where Roman amphorae lie on the seabed in an underwater archaeological trail.
On the north west coast, the Grotta del Genovese holds one of the most important examples of prehistoric art in the Mediterranean. Its walls are decorated with Upper Palaeolithic incisions, about 12,000 years old, of deer, bulls and horses, made when Levanzo was still joined to Sicily, and with later Neolithic black paintings of human figures, animals and tuna. The cave was discovered by chance in 1949.
Tip: the cave can be visited only with a guide, by boat or on foot along a path; book in advance with the custodians on the island.
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