San Vito Lo Capo

Welcome to San Vito Lo Capo

San Vito Lo Capo is a tourist, seaside and holiday resort in the province of Trapani, in Sicily. And so, San Vito Lo Capo… in Sicily…

A land to which the dove lent its collar
and which the peacock clothed in the mottled mantle of its feathers.

Thus a Sicilian poet writing in Arabic, Ibn Hamdîs, born in Syracuse in 1056 and exiled in distant Seville, extols in inspired and justly famous verses his land of origin, and ours. And again, in a composition tormented by painful nostalgia yet vibrant with bitterness and longing for the beautiful days of youth, he writes in a splendid qasîdah:

Sicily comes back to my mind;
ah, memory that stirs sorrow in the soul!
I think again of the land that was the field of my youthful passions:
what flower of lineage dwelt there!
Since I was driven from such a paradise, I wish to sing of its delights.
Here I laughed at twenty in the carefree spirit of youth,
now at sixty I weep for its faults.

These verses can still today be considered emblematic of the beauty of the island and of its cultural vitality, which has always been a crossroads and a bridge between the east, west, north and south of the Mediterranean, an obligatory passage and stopover, forced and almost always desired, in the movements of the peoples who over the millennia have left their mark there. Thus Aegean-Anatolian peoples, Elymians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Vandals, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Angevins and Bourbons, attracted by Sicily’s economic potential and its privileged position, stopped here, for shorter or longer periods, helping to shape that identity profile known as “sicilianità” (Sicilianness), a mental, temperamental and cultural attitude and inheritance that has survived, with the same distinctive traits, to this day.

And, without any doubt, a fulcrum of this crossroads and a pillar of this bridge is San Vito Lo Capo, a town where the essential colours of the sun, the sky, the sea and the sand, the clear lines of the streets and houses with their weave, the incisive outline of Monte Monaco and the marked line of the Piano di Sopra crowning the landscape form the basis of a canvas that the inhabitants, with their constant work aimed at finding something new, interesting and attractive, use every day to “paint the picture that can capture your attention and make you dream of holidays in this far corner of Sicily: San Vito Lo Capo”.

So Mediterranea Domus too, working with its collaborators to provide you with unusual products in step with the times, pays attention to your requests and, from time to time, seeks effective and efficient solutions to let you live the dream of a holiday in the apartments, holiday homes and residences specially chosen for you in San Vito Lo Capo.

Why, then, spend your summer holidays in San Vito Lo Capo? Why take advantage of the convenience of an apartment in the town centre? Why enjoy the comfort of a home for a peaceful holiday a few steps from the beach? Why choose residences for a seaside holiday? A residence, an apartment a few steps from the beach, a holiday home in the centre of San Vito Lo Capo are a real opportunity to combine a stay with a summer holiday in one of the most beautiful tourist and seaside resorts of Sicily and Italy. Renting an apartment, a holiday home or a tourist residence is also an ideal choice for those who love to travel freely, discovering new places.

Thanking you for choosing San Vito Lo Capo, we wish you a pleasant and safe “navigation” through the pages of this site, suggesting as a travel companion the observation of Marcel Proust:

the real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new lands,
but in having new eyes.