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Lined with Mounts Billiemi and Pizzo Santa Margherita and stretching into the Tyrrenian Sea, Sferracavallo - with its mild climate, its blue sea and the thick Mediterranean vegetation - is a relaxing and a tranquil seaside resort located a few kilometres from Palermo. Its name seems to derive from the horses’ habit to run free through the place before it was reclaimed by the king Vittorio Amedeo.
Once a small village of fishermen, Sferracavallo is by now part of the urban area and lives off tourism and commerce, also thanks to a good supply of hotels and accommodation facilities.