The International Whales Sanctuary - Whale watching
The International Whales Sanctuary an
important zone from the biological point of view. The wealth of food
attracts for a long time thousand of fishes and accordingly the raiders.
Every summer around 2000 whales and thousand of other cetacean, among which
dolphins, zifii and capodogli, are given appointment in the Ligure-Provenzal
basin to feed
in sight of the winter.
It is the first time that a protected sea area has
been created that understands
international waters in this part of the hemisphere: it is drawn of a vast area
over 96000 squared KMs,: equal to the double one of Switzerland. The
whale protected area is extended among the Cote d'Azur, Principaute de Monaco, the
Ligurian Coast, Corsica, Sardinia and Tuscany.
The creation of the Sanctuary
of the Cetacean is an extraordinary event of cooperation for the maintenance
of the nature. The International Whale Sanctuary not only guarantees the guardianship of the sea
mammals, but also of the whole ecosystem of this angle of Mediterranean.
The International Sanctuary Whale watching trips
are the occasion, not only to see from near the Cetacean in their natural
environment, but also to make people aware for a correct management of
the sanctuary of the whales.
There are whale watching tours departing from
three towns in the Savona province: Andora, Alassio and Savona itself.
The tours operate during the tourist season,
check for schedule and availability with the web sites of the three
companies operating these tours:
