Stage 27 - From Carloforte to Capo Sandalo-Becco

We cross the central part of the volcanic island, discovering its historical and cultural heritage, natural features, and landscapes, which are partly the result of the work of the Ligurian Tabarchini, who have inhabited it for almost 300 years. We walk among vineyards and wind-swept vegetable gardens, pine forests that cloak even the steepest slopes, and, in the final stretch, along the cliffs between Capo Becco and Capo Sandalo, where in 1864 the westernmost lighthouse in Italy was built. These are nesting sites for a rare bird of prey, the Eleonora’s falcon. Encounters with San Pietro’s mining past are also present, such as the tracks once marked by carts transporting minerals and the former ochre and manganese mines of Becco.