Villas in Menfi

About Menfi

Menfi is a town of around 11,700 people, at about 110 metres and some 3 km back from the south coast between the Belice and Carboj rivers. The Chiesa Madre was wrecked by the 1968 earthquake and later rebuilt, and the Torre Federiciana survives from a castle Frederick II built in 1238. It gives its name to the Menfi DOC wine area, and the tourist board pitches it as a place where sea and vineyards meet. The coast is a run of sandy beaches, with the seaside hamlets of Porto Palo, Lido Fiori and Bertolino di Mare strung along it. Our homes are scattered over about 7 km of countryside around the town, mostly sleeping around six, and nearly all have a garden and air conditioning. Evenings are low-key, built around dinner at the fish restaurants on Porto Palo's seafront.

Is Menfi right for you?

Best for

Families and couples after sandy beaches and vineyard country

Not for you if

You want nightlife or to walk to the beach, since the homes are spread inland and the coast is quiet.

Near Menfi

• Porto Palo di Menfi

  Menfi's own seaside hamlet, with a sandy, child-friendly beach, a seaside air and fish restaurants along the seafront.

• Selinunte

  The Archaeological Park of Selinunte, billed by the regional tourist board as the largest in Europe.

• Foce del Belice

  Sandy beach and dunes at the mouth of the Belice river, over the boundary in Castelvetrano's territory.

• Montevago

  Belice valley village with natural thermal baths fed by sulphur springs and the ruins of the old village left by the 1968 earthquake.

• Cretto di Burri

  The monumental artwork at Gibellina, spread over the ruins left there by the 1968 Belice earthquake.

Getting to Menfi

Palermo airport is about 92 km away, roughly an hour and a half by car. Trapani is the other option; a Salvatore Lumia bus runs five times a day in about an hour and 20 minutes. Buses from Palermo change at Castelvetrano. Hire a car either way.

When to go to Menfi

Summer is beach season, when the Blue Flag beaches at Lido Fiori Bertolino and Porto Palo Cipollazzo come into their own. The feast of St Anthony, Menfi's patron, falls on 13 June each year. Outside summer, the countryside is the draw: drive to Selinunte, the Cretto di Burri or the thermal baths at Montevago rather than to the beach.

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