Hiking the Rocca

Climbing the headland to the remains of an ancient Greek temple and the Byzantine mountaintop fortress of Cefalù

If you've got about three hours (early morning is best), you can take a bracing hike 917 feet up the Rocca.

About halfway up, the path splits. Steps to the right lead the long way up to the overgrown foundations of a 13th-century Byzantine fortress at the very top of the mountain.

The path to the left leads past ancient cisterns and remnants of medieval houses (and a long, picturesquely crenellated wall), to the so-called Temple of Diana, a small, 5th-century BC temple made of huge stones fitted together with a few doorways surviving. A path to the right above the temple then leads steeply to that mountaintop fortress.

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