Boat Trips: : to the Grotto of Bue Marino and to the rocks "la Canna".

Filicudi, the ancient Phoenicusa, called thus owing to its fern vegetation which, especially in ancient times, was most abundant. The island oval shaped with an appendix to the South East composed of the small peninsula of Capo Graziano (174 m), is the result of the six recognizable eruptive centres.
The most ancient was probably situated in the tract of sea facing the coast near Fili di Sciacca. The widest and most ancient area is the Fossa delle Felci and the most recent the Montagnola.
To the South-East, the cupola of stagnation of Capo Graziano forms a promontory. The summit of Filicudi has the same name as that of Salina: Fossa delle Felci (774 m). The lower summits are called: the Montagnola (383 m) and the Terrion (278 m). All three were once seats of volcanoes. The slopes of the island are, principally, steep and rocky.

The houses are grouped around the port of Pecorini and, above all, at Valdichiesa, where rises the temple of Santo Stefano.

The coasts of Filicudi present uncommon beauty. Sloping formations of terraces covered by woods of broom and falling towards the sea, follow narrow valleys, to abrupt rocks and to coasts now severe, now pleasant.

Here and there one admires deep grottos like that of the Maccatore, of S. Bartolomeo, of the Perciato (perforated) and of the Bue Marino (seal). The last is the most well known. It has an entrance with pointed arch with a characteristic entrance hall and with a most ample cavity.
The plays of light and shadow produce therein phenomena of refraction particularly suggestive. This grotto is a refuge, an oasis of peace, one of the most enchanted corners of the kingdom of Eolo.

In the neighbourhood of the Western coast of the island, the rocks of Montenassari stand out together with those of Mitra, Notaro and the one called "la Canna", 71 metres high.
These rocks, with their solemnity, confer upon the panorama an austere classical beauty. The coral fishing was interesting and was practiced near the Canna. Even today there is the fishing of sponges. The sea surrounding the island is most rich with ichtylogicfauna.

At Filicudi from the etnological point of view, the peninsula of Capo Graziano is most interesting since it is the centre of vast prehistoric dwellings dating back to the Bronze Age. A first very Vast habitation, but of which only a few oval dwellings have been so far excavated, extends on the Piano del Porto on the southern coast of the isthmus connecting the Montagnola to the Capo Graziano in locality Filo Braccio and near the dilapidated Lopez house (it may be attributed to the XVIII-XVII centuries B.C.). Another larger habitation probably successive to the preceding one, extends on the high part of the Montagnola of Capo Graziano. The excavations carried out during recent years have brought to light some twenty oval dwellings on a terrace at the height of 100 m. a.s.l.

The village however, must have extended on the plateau above up to the summit of the Montagnola. It is probable that the habitation has been transferred to a dominating position and easly defendable following the lack of the conditions of security and tranquillity which had permitted the development of the village of the underlying plain. In the dwellings of the Montagnola have been found together with ceramic ware of indigenous production also numerous fragments of Mycenaean and Cyclades ceramic ware proving commercial relations with the Aegean area between 1500 and 1300 B.C. The dwellings of this habitation show evident testimony of being reconstructed many times. The village has probably ceased to exist following a violent destruction during the XII century B.C. On the steep slopes of the Montagnola there were between natural gorges the butial corresponding to the habitations. On the summit of the Montagnoli di Pecorini, that is on the Mountain dominating the habitation of same name on the Southern coast, there is a large mass with a Greek inscription.