Sicily-Rock (10th edition 2026)

San Vito lo Capo • Castelluzzo • Custonaci
Rocca Firriato • Monte Monaco Parete Est • Monte Monaco Sperone Est • Monte Monaco Parete Nord • Pizzo Monaco • Nuova Ossessione • Cattedrale nel Deserto • Il Grande Occhio • Scogliera di Salinella • Valanga • Macari - Placche di Macari • Torre Radio Nord • Grotta Perciata • Lost World • Castelluzzo Outdoor Wall • Crown of Aragon • Cinema Paradiso • Custonaci / Scurati • Boulderspot BIG CAVE

Authors: Ulrich & Harald Röker

The original book for the San Vito areas!

We work closely together with the main developers of the area and therefore are always extremely up-to-date. The authors have developed many of the a bit harder but also a good number of moderate routes themselves, so a pretty large amount of the selling goes back into bolting material for the area!

The area San Vito lo Capo in the north-west of Sicily is one of the best European climbing destinations for the cooler season! Many routes can be reached on foot from the camping and Monte Monaco even offers multi-pitch climbs up to a length of 400 m.

The moderate climate, the situation close to the sea, cheap flights, the infrastructure of San Vito (beach, supermarkets, restaurants, hotels,...) and the very well protected and really excellent routes (also in the moderate grades) make this area to a real top-spot of European climbing.

• Comfortable temperatures also in winter (many south/west facing sectors)
• Close vicinity to the beach, the area lies directly at the sea
• Very short approach times: Almost all crags can be reached in 1-5 minutes.
• The campsite El Bahira lies directly at the coast and below the biggest cliff. The first sectors are only a few steps from the campsite area.
• Excellent connections and cheap flights to Birgi-Trapani or Palermo from all over Europe
• Including the boulderspot BIG CAVE situated directly in the climbing area
• More than 1300 sport climbing routes and numerous multi-pitch routes up to 400 m
• QR-codes for the GPS-coordinates of the sectors and the parkings
• Year of the development of the routes if we could get the info
• Symbols for type of bolts and type of material used in the routes; with up-to-date info
• Some new sectors, also new multi-pitch routes
• New: info to re-bolted sectors and routes

The info to the routes (year of development, used bolt material) was a highly intensive research and has the following reason:
San Vito is a climbing area close to the sea and therefore like all such areas faces the problem of corrosion by extremely salty air. The safety depends a lot on the used material of the bolts. 2 factors have an important effect on the safety: a) the time and b) the used bolt type and its material. Therefore we researched - if possible - the year of the development and the used type/material of the bolts. With this info it's a lot better now to estimate the safety of the bolt material of a route.

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