Aeolian Islands

THE AEOLIAN ISLANDS

Tourism

The full of rocks cape of vulcanica origin, inhabited since the Neolithic one, center of ancient civilizations before still of the Etruschi and the Cities of the Magna Greece, divides the two insenature of Long Short and Marine Navy. The Greek ones constructed the acropoli to you of the Lipara then and also Roman cities founded you one. The nevralgica position of Lipari concurred one defended effective against the attacks of the enemies and, for this, it was the ideal shelter of the populations during the attacks and the raids of the pirates.

LIPARI

the most extended of the Aeolian Islands,

is the only city center of the archipelago.

Lipari today is introduced with walls to them of the Spanish Castle to testimony of its typical aspect of village fortified of the 1500's. In XI the century the Cathedral dedicated to Saint Bartolomeo came erected from Ruggero the Normanno. The Church , destroyed in the 1544 from the pirata Barbarossa, was reconstructed in the area delimited from walls of the Castle, in baroque shapes in XVI the century. To the inside of the former Episcopal Palace it has been gained a Museum, to the outside, of forehead to the Church of the Immaculate one, the archaeological zone is all and is here that the tangible testimony of how much is had the eoliana civilization is begun before every other southern culture.

The diggings lead from archaeologist Luigi Bernabò Brea and Madeleine Cavalier have very evidenced five levels of life of the area of the Castle of which four referables to the Age of the Bronze and the Iron and one referable to the greco-roman age. Much evocative are the beaches of Lipari characterized from the presence of the pomice and obsidian.

In a zone isolated to the center of the island of Lipari, to Plain Count, there are the Thermal baths of St. Calogero that were built in 1867. Waters gush out used for muds and baths in the care of gout and rheumatisms.

Carasco Hotel

VULCANO

The island, nearest the sicialian coast, is constituted from three volcanos of which most ancient it is inactive sin from the preistoria and forms the massive one more elevated that one of the Mount Air and of the Saraceno Mount that are high approximately 500 mt.; Vulcanello is high little more than 100 mt. and the northeast of the island is found to the extremity; Great Crater or Large Fossa, the mountain high approximately 385 mt. it is active with numerous fumarole and, even if the last disastrous eruption laughed them to 1888, the danger second the vulcanologists is always present. In the antiquity the volcano, for its bursting out seismic activity, incuteva in the people much fear a lot that this island was considered center God the Volcano of the fire, island sacred to Eolo God of the twenty and thought the antechamber of hell.

Still today, like already pointed out, the Great Crater is active and is considered between most dangerous volcanos in the world. The slope to the Great Crater, hard few less than a hour. You part in direction of the Plan, diverting then for Old Forge and coasting along the casting of ossidiana. The crater is to 390 meters altitude and has a really infernal aspect. With a diameter of 500 meters that is tightened funnel-shaped toward the fund, is introduced with pink striations, yellow and grigie. On the edges the fumaroles exhale white and acrid vapors of sulphur that, depositing each other, leaves a yellowish veil on the rocks. The mining exploitation had already begun to the time of the Romans, it knew a long interruption lasted up to eight hundred, when the general borbonico took back Nunziante the activity using the convicts of the penal colony of Lipari.

Main centers of a tourism always in great development here to the Aeolian ones, are the two bays of Port of Levant and Placing Port of. The berthing to the island is to the Port of Levant. One of the greater Volcano attractions is constituted from a great warm mud river basin that is met heading towards the Placing Port of. The waters of this river basin are considered curative for the reumatiche diseases and the diseases of the skin. To the Placing Port of one admires the particular and evocative more popular beach of the island: the Black Sands. Between the Great Crater and the Mount Air there is the zone of the extraordinarily lussureggiante Plan of vegetation; the high part, used after pasture, is covered of forests of oaks; the low part is cultivated to orchards and vineyards.

SALINA

After Lipari the formed larger island of the Aeolian ones from two reliefs of vulcanica origin is Salt, the Mount of the Porri and the Fossa Mount of the Ferns (962 mt.) it separates to you from one goes them. The island has own sweet water sources and this has concurred a sure agricultural development giving at the same time the aspect of green island. Vary torrents collect the piovana water constituting a true hydrographical net, the necks are cultivate to vineyard and produce the famous one to you malvasia. Beyond the screw the olive tree and the caper cultivate themselves also. On the reliefs they are present pines, oaks and chestnut trees.

Punta Lingua

A Small lake of the Aironi , therefore called because here they put down aironi cinerini during the their migration annual from Africa.

Like the other Aeolian Islands, also Salt it was lived sin from the age of the Bronze and then in classic age. Also Salt it had to endure the incursions of the saraceni and in that period the island was become depopulated completely but resumptions to ripopolarsi in the 1700's and the 1800's, thanks to the viticoltura, caught up a population of 12.000 inhabitants, subsequently the peronospera damaged and destroyed to great part of the lives forcing the population to emigrate. Today the number of the inhabitants goes around around the 2500 inhabitants. The centers live to you are three: Saint mostly agricultural Marina, Malfa and Leni To Salt rises the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Terzito, spiritual center of the Island and goal of pilgrimages.

The beautiful beach of the island is attainable from Pollara an agglomerate small of arranged houses, to the base of the Mount of the Porri, to the center of a natural amphitheater. The bay is sluice from a pierced cape: the Tip of the Perciato

Mercanti di mare

Principe di Salina

salinacase

PANAREA

Milazzese head, a true and own impregnable natural fortress and that explains as this island was inhabited sin from the 1400 to C. from one population rather evoluta: of that period, in fact, they have been found again ceramic and manufatti of varied type.

The materials find again to you in the diggings have been transport to you to Lipari and are exposed in the Eoliano Museum . Beyond to being inhabited in the period of the age of the Bronze some ritrovamenti to the Limekiln they demonstrate that the Island was inhabited sin from the neolithic one

Panarea is encircled from many isolette and scogli that they form a secondary archipelago, between these isolette Basiluzzo, that it tos be distant from Panarea 3,5 km approximately, has the shape of cupola with walls to peak on the sea.

Junco cove is sure the locality beautifulr than Panarea. Leaving from the small inhabited of Drauto and walking for approximately half hour one catches up great, wonderful natural swimming pool from absolutely transparent waters from the colors, brillantati from the sun, that they vary from the green to the turchese to the intense blue. On the cape to scythe shape, that it scenograficamente closes to effect the bay, they have been discovered the stone traces of twenty-three huts.

Raya Hotel

Hotel Cincotta

Hotel Hycesia

STROMBOLI

The Stromboli is a volcano in eruption from at least two millenia, its cyclical outbreaks is "spectacular", ash, lapilli and incandescent material comes hurled in air, therefore up and with strong roars to seem artifice fires.

Strombolicchio , large scoglio distant from Stromboli one kilometer and means to east north.

Before the 1920 the spuntoni full of rocks they were much higher, were once again smooths because "it had" to construct a beacon to you, the hand of the man deturpa that that the nature creates.

A perron much steep one allows to go up in top (approximately 50 meters): from here the sight on Stromboli, on the coast calabra and that sicialian he is truly spectacular. Much evocative they are I found them coralliferi that surrounds the isolotto. Beautifulst they are the real gulls: only, uncontested tenants of the islet.

Stromboli is the farther island from the sicialian coast, the little inhabitants of the island lives in the villages of Saint Vincenzo, Saint Bartolo and Ginostra. The active volcano is in continuous eruption; most recent the last one, December 2002, that it has poured in sea a river of washes creating uneasiness and worries to the population of the island, in particular to Ginostra. Navigation has become for the continuous and mighty raisings and movements sudden of water masses impracticable. You open them 2003, the volcano still not placa, to Ginostra are collapsed some houses.

La Sirenetta

FILICUDI

The island of Filicudi a time called Phoenicusa that derived to them from the fact that it was covered from driven in vegetation of ferns but it could, but, therefore to call itself for the presence of fenici takeovers. The island today is insufficient inhabited (is available approximately 250 inhabitants residents). For how much far from the firm earth this island it was lived to leave from the 1700 a.C. and, based on ritrovamenti of going back fragments of ceramics to the Neolithic one, quite sin from IV the millenium a.C..

Numerous they are the reperti of the Age of the Bronze and to Graziano Head they have been characterizes two preistorici takeovers very to you

The Fossa of the Ferns is not other that a beautiful long walk an old mulattiera that crosses the island. Port is known them from Filicudi until the low part of the Rocca di Ciauli. S' then feeds the path that leads to the lived one of Val of Church and from the Fossa of the Ferns (Mt. 774 is caught up here easily) from which a magnificent panorama admires.

On the promontory of Head Graziano a prehistoric village has been discovered formed from huts to plant oval go backing, according to the archaeologists, to the age of the Bronze.

The gita one in boat that us door to the Cove of the marine Ox is absolutely extraordinary for the beauty of the games of lights and colors to the inside of the cove. It is arrived to the cove after to have old a high pointed faraglione called the Cane and the natural arc of tip of the Perciato: one indeed splendid natural show.

ALICUDI

Alicudi, anciently call Ericusa, from the presence on the island of the heather, plant that abandons today still on the slopes and in the inaccessible valleys of the out volcanic cone.
For many centuries, target of frequent raids from the pirates that infested the routs of the Tyrrhenian, his/her population was practically forced to be a natural shelter in cottages built on the balconies to half coast that damns on the oriental slope. Her past history boils down in the traces of an inhabited area of the XVII - XVI sec. a.C., that owed to stretch next to the port landing; other traces of the same epoch exist on the summit of the island. This allows to intend that the modest agriculture and the fishing were the bases of the economy of the prehistoric community. Ceramic fragments of Roman age are found shed on the oriental coast of the island. The island had part, together with Lipari, to the commerce of the ossidiana. In place Rifle have been recovered sarcophagi of it washes containers numerous fittilis and vases precious go backing to the IV sec. a.C.. Alicudi also suffered Barbaric raids: it is testimony of it a kind of natural bunker, called Timpone of the Female, where the women were confined during the raids of marauders and pirates.

The Alicudi , most extreme of the Aeolian Islands is introduced, seen from far away, with the characteristic conical shape of an ancient volcano that s' inabissa in order more than thousand meters under the sea level.

On the Island the comforts lack all the "modern life" and this particular it renders it still more attractive inasmuch as, by now, the wild massificazione "has contaminated" same angles of paradise in the Aeolian ones.