Torre Guaceto Reserve

The very name of the park tells of its ancient history and its importance to both animal and human communities since ancient times. 

The Italian Torre Guaceto derives, in fact, from the Arabic Al Gawsit, 'the place of fresh water', a term chosen by an ancient Middle Eastern topographer to indicate the presence of life-giving water springs in the place.

Its geological and environmental characteristics have made the reserve an ideal place for everyone.

Crossing Torre Guaceto from a bird's eye view, proceeding from the hinterland towards the open sea, one can observe the richness of its perfect ecosystem, the succession of different environments that lend themselves to different harmonies: first the cultivated fields and olive groves, then the coastal mosaic of Mediterranean maquis, the wetlands, the dunes and the shoreline, and finally the sea, on whose seabed are prairies of posidonia oceanica and, deeper down, coralligenous. Environments that are different but interconnected, protected and at the same time open to man.