Faraglioni di Punta della Madonna

The Faraglioni sit off the tip of the Punta della Madonna headland, which closes the Ponza port bay from the south-east, so the bulk of the island shadows the W through N sectors and keeps the site calm in the prevailing Mistral/Tramontana NW winds. The exposed faces look out over open Tyrrhenian water to the E-SE-S, where a Scirocco blowing up from Africa has the longest fetch and brings the biggest wind-waves; a Libeccio from the SW arrives more obliquely and partly muted. On a Scirocco day the swell wraps the stacks and the otherwise easy site can pick up surge around the arch and cavern.