Donnalucata
Choose a Keys of Sicily holiday home and come and discover one of the many itineraries for
discover Eastern Sicily. Just 17 km from Modica you can discover the seaside village
of Donnalucata.
Donnalucata is a fraction of Scicli, in the province of Ragusa. This ancient village yes
overlooks the Mediterranean, and has two very large beaches.
Micenci beach is located at the end of the promenade in via Marina, where a
wide beach over six kilometers long that reaches Cava d’Aliga, another hamlet
of Scicli. This beach is much loved by locals who spend their holidays here
days at the beach between relaxation and sport, it is very common to find people playing football
tennis, beach volleyball and tam beach.
The Ponente beach, bounded by the pier of the port of Donnalucata and by
cliff that leads towards Playa Grande, it is smaller but welcoming. The beach is
separated by viale della Repubblica, one of the main arteries of the hamlet, from
Lentini seafront overlooking the golden sandy beach. The pier is very
loved by fishermen and by those who want to do some diving!
The town is very small, so much so that it has just over 3,000 inhabitants, which during the
summer period, exceed 10,000. There are no great attractions, if not the sea, but
nothing is missing. Shops, bakeries, bars and especially restaurants where you can eat
good fish with sea view. As mentioned, the Marinella seafront is the most
frequented, especially in the evening hours, by young people and families.
Its port is very small, it only houses small fishing or tourist boats. THE
fishermen take the opportunity to sell their fish here.
It is on this promenade that Inspector Montalbano is often found
walk, in many scenes of the TV series. So what is originally Via Marina,
it becomes known to all as Lungomare d Marinella.
In Donnalucata human settlements date back to the Greek age. At the end of the XI century
it became a land coveted by the Saracens and defended by the Normans, according to an ancient legend
the two peoples would have fought an epic battle on the beach of Donnalucata
in 1091. The Normans led by Ruggero D’Altavilla got the better of the troops
of the Emir Bell Khan only thanks to the intervention of the Madonna delle Milizie, the
Warrior Madonna to whom a sanctuary is dedicated upstream of the seaside village.
The name of the village derives from the Arabic Ain-lu Kat which literally means
source of the hours, it seems in fact that a source of fresh water that seems to flow only
in the hours of prayer. Even today fresh water sources emerge on the coast of
Donnalucata, the most evident is found on Micenci beach
The current urban aspect begins to take shape in the nineteenth century when it is still
there is a clear distinction between the fishermen’s cottages and the villas of the nobles. Between
these are Palazzo Mormino Penna, a building with a characteristic colored façade
red and in neo-Gothic style whose decorations recall the symbols of Sicily. In the end
of the same century, in 1883, the church of Santa Caterina da was also completed
Siena. Donnalucata grows in the twentieth century, especially after the Second World War
thanks to the development of agriculture and greenhouse cultivation. Today it is an important destination of
seaside tourism thanks to its two large beaches, that of Ponente and that of
Micenci connected by the seafront in via Marina.
Good walk !
