The port of Santa Marina Salina is a defining point of the island of Salina, giving boats a safe landing place in the middle of the Aeolian Archipelago. The latter is well second in size, after that of Lipari. Its connotation remains of great touristic prestige, projecting the island’s territory on the list of nature reserves and UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1981.

The port is located south of the commercial port of S. Marina Salina and takes its name from the “salina” that was located on the tip of the island, also called the tongue. A now disused part that does not see boat landings but testifies to its past as a probable naval reference point also thanks to the presence of the old lighthouse.

To date, it consists of a new tourist dock defended by a curvilinear outer breakwater with a south/southwest direction and an under-billow pier with a south/south-east direction. In it, a long floating pier is installed parallel to the shore quay.

Outside the dock, south of the breakwater pier, develops the Pozzo d’Agnello Quay where small and medium-sized boats can moor, to which services of water and electricity intake, fuel, slip, weather service and engine repair are guaranteed.

The island bases most of its economy on tourism. It is therefore easy, in the warm months of July and August, to see numerous passing boats docked that have in their sailing itineraries, visiting the coast and the island’s attractions. Despite this strength, tourism is not definable as mass and there are not many tour companies and therefore no famous ferries that tread the route much are in service.

It is therefore one of those ports that can be defined as owned by seafarers and curious sailors.

Only rarely, the dock also hosts yachts of medium length and prestige, as docking services are mainly related to the possibilities of reaching restaurants or small markets, perhaps leaving out some secondary services that larger ports are able to provide.

The Santa Marina Salina tourist dock, now called the “Aeolian Port,” has been managed since 2009 by Safim srl, a private company that has implemented an innovative overall management of the facility, even managing to organize small tourist events for boats and market lovers.

The port of Santa Marina Salina, gives the possibility of access via boat, to an appendix of theAeolian Aricpelago, fascinating and full of riches. A dock of first utility, which in its few but functional features, provides the possibility to dock one’s boat and delve into the wonders of the island, among the typical products and the scent of the famous Malvasia, a typical product of the place

The ports of Santa Marina Salina