Have you heard of Ponza and Palmarola? In Germany (my nationality) and the world, these dreams of Italian islands are true secrets! The Royal Clipper has cast the anchor between Rome and Naples and landed in the picturesque island. The tender ship slides gently through the Tyrrhenian Sea. As if it were a paint, put, with its small port, it is presented as a perfect islands backdrop with a blue sea and pastel colored houses nestled on the hillside: an idyllic example of Italian postcard!
Port Idilio de Ponza
The caves of Ponza are famous with their blue caves.
On Ponza there are more fishing boats than yachts during the low season.
Ponza belongs to the Pontino archipelago and is located 50 kilometers from the Italian Peninsula. The mini-isla, which has just seven kilometers long, is considered a popular destination between the rich and beautiful.
Here many stars like Heidi Klum and members of the Royal Family as Mette-Marit de Norway have taken the sun. So I’m already mentally preparing for the somewhat exhausting chic environment and for a shopping spree, while I quietly enjoy the beautiful view from the auxiliary boat.
If after your espresso you want to lie on the beach and swim in the sea, walk 3 meters to the right from the dock …
I want to start right now …
Cozy instead of busy – Ponza City
Walk through the port of Ponza and enjoy every moment.
PORT ROMANCE: Everything is a matter of perspective
Our ship, the Royal Clipper, hit and I find multitude, strong conversations, cups of coffee dyeing, cafés full and a lot of bustle. Where did the Jet Set go? A cyclomotor passes along with us and then silence envelops us again. On one side of the dock, the waves break gently on the neighboring beach, empty. On the other side, the sea gently hits the port wall, like a caress. World upside down or better: unexpected landscape. I walk a few steps along the colorful houses that shine so beautifully under the sun. The fishermen arrive at the port, they greet each other, they are called with each other, they laugh. They tie their ships. He smiles softly as I capture every moment of this idyllic fairy tale in camera. For her is everyday life, for me a quiet moment of happiness on my boat trip through Italy. What could the fisherman be thinking? Do you also enjoy the peace and tranquility of the low season, when your ship enters the port loaded with fresh fish and then celebrates the quiet life of the morning with an espresso at the bar of the port with sea view? Or is it that it has long been normal for the Ponzesians who, during the season, Naomi Campbell suddenly one at the bar with a Campari or Carolina de Monaco also wants an espresso? As I do not speak Italian, I will never know. So we both smile to greet each other; An international language and an ” Great “Complementary always work.
Natural beauties of the coast of Ponza
The silent observer …
Hidden image: Who sees the bird?
Ponza has many caves
Fathomed cliffs …
Newly arrived in the colorful Bella Italy from the rainy and gray Germany, the moment seems a bit magical. I do not get tired of admiring the beauty of the people of the same name, put, and I still stop to capture the color game. Suddenly I feel as if they were watching me, I turn gently to the side and look into the eyes of a dog. A whistle sounds and the dog leaves the car parked on the beach and is immediately located next to its owner. He presents himself as Matteo and asks us if we would like to make a small boat trip with him. He was about to tell him no, explaining that we had just disembark from the Royal Clipper, when he began to show me enthusiastic photographs of his homeland on his cell phone. “Bellissima, fantastic” is often confused in English descriptions.
Ponza is an island of volcanic origin, with a coast formed mostly by steep cliffs. Many beautiful bays and white sand beaches can be reached from Ponza only by sea. For example, it is said that a beach can only be accessed through a 150 -meter long tunnel of the Roman era. What makes Ponza special is that it has many caves and caves, and we should not miss them, Matteo advises me. We reserve it and explore put with your personal aquatic taxi.
The experience is impressive! The sea shines in the most beautiful tones of blue. Water is so clear that I can see to the bottom. Some of the caves we access in the small boat were formerly used for fish farming or for religious purposes. It is said that some caves have decorations and statues of gods. Today, however, we will only explore the bays and natural caves near the city of Ponza, and these are alone make us wonder and shout for joy before natural beauty! This is a party for the eyes and soul. I understand that nature is the true star of the island! We leave our feet hanging out the boat in the sea, enjoying the freshness and dew that hits us while the boat takes us through marine rock formations to the next cave. Then we crouch again and become very small while the fisherman carries us skillfully to the small and deep caves. Before us is the dark and under the water still shines with an intense turquoise blue by the sun: What a fantastic view and what a wonderful moment!
Sterile beauties in the blue sea. I can’t have enough of them …
… When you think it ends here, it’s just starting …
Crystalline Sea: In the caves and caves you can see to the bottom.
Blue has a million beautiful nuances on Ponza!
We explore the caves by boat.
With views of the Royal Clipper we sail in front of Ponza in a small ship.
Back to ground we walked a little through the colored houses near the port. Ponza has fought from mass tourism; There are no hotel sins here. However, the hiding place is very popular among the Romans during the season. Ponza creates a mixture of Jet Set and a certain simplicity of original Italy. Without my boat trip at the Royal Clipper, I would not have discovered this dream island. Ponza and I have known each other for just a few hours, but I loved the island. “Between buganvillas and broom explosions, I lose myself in the beauty of these sunsets and I find my paradise on earth.” – This is how it describes the Nobel Prize for Italian Literature Eugenio Montale. He promises that you should get more time to get more impressions of this jewel in the sea, right? To understand this, formerly political prisoners were taken to the island to isolate them. I really can’t imagine how this banishment can be understood as a punishment …
Tip for a stop: In the upper port there are several coffees and restaurants along the streets. Fish is one of Ponza’s main sources of income and arrives directly from the port to the table. You can also afford to try a tasty biancolella as the locals do. This white wine is grown on the small island since the seventeenth century.
Ponza strokes the soul …
Palmarola: The island magic of nature
Shortly after our landing on Ponza we climbed aboard the Royal Clipper and then immediately climb the auxiliary vessels. The winds are favorable and Captain Sergey Tunikov and his crew invite us to circumnavigate the beautiful sailboat. First we take a look at Ponza’s sister island, Palmarola. Like Ponza, Palmarola is a paradise for divers and navigators. The island is uninhabited except during the summer months, with one or two small houses. Today, some ships are tied in some bays, sheltered from the wind. The island is a nature reserve and here you can experience a practically intact nature. From the ship we observe goats in the high cliffs, savagely jumping like acrobats. It seems as if they wanted to offer us a show to us, the only guests we spend here today.
With our auxiliary boat we will go through large rock formations that rise on the crystalline blue waters of the island of Palmarola. The only traces of civilization that I discover are in a corner where there are a few houses excavated in the rock. The beauty of this island is overwhelming, the unique silence. Only the sound of the water and the song of the goats in the distance comes to my ears. Together, it seems almost unreal to be here in the middle of the sea.
Ponza is very close to Palmarola.
Palmarola is a natural beauty
Blue, green, gray and orange: the chord of four shades of plot.
The ships are tied in the protected bays of Palmarola.
The colors of the sea are different every few meters and are impressive!
The goats graze and run like a deer through stony pastures.
As a gold brooch to this fantastic day of travel in a sailboat in Italy with the Royal Clipper, the sailboat is in all its splendor in the middle of the Pontine Islands. The candles are raised and the beauty of the sea gives us the majestic welcome. In this natural dream environment, the experience in the sea is magical. We take several laps on the world’s largest candle ship between Ponza and Palmarola and take vacuum photographs with my camera. Any sunset perspective approaching in the “blue hour” is brilliant. Suddenly something happens in Bauprés. The Royal Clipper crew meets around us and greets us with its cordial and friendly style while the auxiliary boat revolves to return to the ship. Feelings of happiness extended within me.
Back on the roof of the Royal Clipper, we ask for a cocktail at the Tropical Bar. Standing next to the railing, my girlfriend and I provide each other, watching the sea silently. The sun sets slowly, shining with the most beautiful and warm colors on the sea. We enjoy the moment of tranquility with a view to the paradisiacal archipelago. Sometimes there are no words to feel and share happiness.
The Royal Clipper: a dream vacation under white candles …
The Royal Clipper crew meets us in the Royal Clipper Bauprés against Palmarola.
Seeing the Royal Clipper with all its candles off the coast of Italy is a picturesque show.
The Royal Clipper is our model and star of the evening.ponza offers magnificent bays, beaches and caves.
Disclosure : My research trip at the Royal Clipper was supported by the ship -clippers shipping company, the Star Clippers Cruises tourist operator and the John Will Communication agency. Thank you very much for that! The content of this article, of course, is not affected by the invitation and reflects my own opinion. I did not receive any remuneration for this article.
This article was published with the author’s permission.
Tanja Neumann is a journalist based on Krefeld (Germany) “in the middle between Italy and Austria” as she defines, and writes about her passions in her blog, Vielweib on Tour, where she has achieved a vast number of followers and in which she recounts in detail her select journeys that join pleasure, culinary delights, cruises, walks through the city, luxury, luxury experience extraordinary, wellness, breaks, and even tours of road convertible.
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