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Santa Flavia (Saint Flavia)
Santa Flavia is a seaside village very close to the city of Palermo, which benefits from its own fame and its tourist audience for the crystalline sea and the particularity of its buildings that in certain points lie down on the coast and let themselves be bathed by the splashes of salty waves, protected by rocks that lose their grandeur in front of the sea.
The panorama that the small village offers is characterized by a succession of harbours, by buildings that emerge from the ground to give colour and shape to the place, by boats that sway together with the water moved by the wind. Scenarios that look like paintings, an open-air art gallery where each element is a piece painted by sea coloured brushstrokes and set by the warm sun that enriches them with shades of light.
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Santa Flavia has a history that begins many centuries ago and which, like many parts of the Palermo region, begins in the Phoenician era and then continued in the Greco-Roman era.
Santa Flavia has changed various names over time: from Kafara to Soluntum, as the Romans called it, and exactely the part of the Roman ruins, now called Solunto, can still be visited by walking uphill towards the highest part of the promontory. Solunto contains a real archaeological site that was brought to light only in the early 1800s, revealing many other nuances and traditions in addition to the maritime ones that are immediately visible. Today, as in the past, the Antiquatium collects artefacts and statues from the Phoenician and Hellenistic periods that tell of ancient stories, of peoples who inhabited and enriched Sicily with traditions.
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Santa Flavia, therefore, is another of those Sicilian treasures that reveals itself only to those whom is able to read in its rocks the centuries of history that have formed unique veins and shapes. Rocks shaped by the waves of the sea and by those who knew how to tame and navigate them.
Because every corner of soil in Sicily is a precious casket and wonderful to the eye, but is content is even more precious.
