This map represents Italy. Sicily is in red. The Aeolian Archipelago (Aeolian islands, or Lipari Islands) is circled. Click on the map to open another window with a bigger map of the Aeolian archipelago, whose Filicudi is part of.

The island of Filicudi! Click over places in this map to see detailed informations about them and some pictures too!

Why Filicudi Island ? Because it's different. It is something really near to pure incontaminated nature... you can breathe pure air and smell the breeze coming from the sea. I prefer Filicudi in winter times... because in the summer it is appreciated by too many people... (especially in the week around 15 August) yet... what I call "too many people" is just a desert compared to any other seaside resort in Italy!! if you can choose when to come here on vacation... consider visiting us in September and June or even May... the weather is extremely mild... and you can enjoy the perfect vacation... not too hot... yet very sunny!

You'll enjoy the astonishing sea, archeological trips around the island, or just nature walks on its "terraces" .. upon mount delle Felci.
If you like snorkeling, diving, climbing, canoeing, fishing Filicudi is for you. If you want to read your books in the still of nature... broken only by cicadas... you are visiting the right website to introduce that marvelous island you need to go to.
I've been taken to the Island since I was 2 years old... quite 28 years ago... my family was and still is in love with the place... at that time it was very different place... with no electricity, only rain collected water... and very few tourism. Today you'll find computers, microwaves, and satellite dishes in many many houses.

Let me be a little nostalgic... for the island was really rude 20 years ago... yet more fascinating for tourists than now, I think.
And when I say in the past Filicudi was hard to live in, I mean so hard many people left the island to get a future in America or Australia... because even just surviving was hard. I'll write a special section about that massive emigration very soon. I suggest you reading the biography of John J. Bonica (here a related photo gallery) here to get an idea of how hard was living there and then.

For the present I hope people living on tourism in Filicudi island will understand sooner or later that a pearl is beautiful until it's ruined by the hands of careless people. A beautiful place is what it is until someone build on archeological places abusive private buildings... or build monsters looking things in the middle of an absolutely Aeolian traditional landscape, or just "forgets" empty Coke cans everywhere. I'd like to have a honorable answer when my descendants will ask me "where have you been when they destroyed Filicudi Island" ???
In Filicudi "Lega Ambiente" (more infos on lega Ambiente) is present with an active section - really active... recently (2002) they have been sued by authorities for a published polemic article about local authorities closing both their eyes on "plain air" and self-evident house building abuses in the island... that's italy... ! - look here an animated image of Filicudi before any civilization -
They try to make the island a better place for the future generations and obviously for who lives there or goes there on vacation in the present.

Back to Filicudi description... I could tell you it's the most beautiful island within the Aeolian Islands... but actually it depends on what you expect from it.
If you want just to meet as much people as can fit and have fun... you'll be only pleased in August ( but even at that time of year you can still enjoy the pleasure of beaches with nobody but you in just going around the island by boat with your friends or even swimming a little !)
If you want total relax... come in Filicudi at anytime.
If you need some accommodation. I can help you in this, even if I may be sometime too busy to answer you in just a few days, I'll help you enjoying that place! Keep in mind that the accomodations offered in that island can vary extremely in quality and prices, sometimes without a "logic" correlation between what you pay and what you get! Yet.. I think if you come there and like the place... you'll be back soon.
Remember... anything you want.. Filicudi might give it to you... just make sure you meet the island in the right time of year !