The historic part of this seaside resort has old –fashioned charm, with its cobbled streets, small squares and flights of steps leading down to the sea. The rows of low, whitewashed houses capped with small grey domes give it a strange, slightly oriental feel. Built on a rocky cliff rising up out of the sea, the town’s foundation in 970 by Slav soldiers, sent here to counter the threat posed by Saracen pirates.
In the centre of the old town you can see The Mother Church, dedicates to St Elias was founded in the 13th century and the medieval castle situated behind the walls of the so-colled recinto baronale (Baronial enclosure).
