Salina

Salina, the green island with twin mountains

The thermal springs of the island of Lipari are remembered by writers from Greek and Roman times (Aristotle, Diodorus, Strabo, Athenaeum and Pliny) and were so famous that one of the minor thermal baths of Rome bore the name of Aeolia.

At the heart of trade in history

The 2002-03 eruption

The Village of Capo Graziano

Lipari at the centre of Mediterranean history

The malleability of Vulcano’s mud

The ancient production of salt

Where do Vulcano’s gases come from?

The Aeolian Islands, where volcanology was born

The pure white of the pumice quarries

Lipari Castle, “fused” with the lava

Lipari, where history intertwines with volcanoes to create archaeology

The Gran Cratere of the Fossa: when the volcano becomes a sculptor

Vulcano, the youngest of the Aeolian works of art

“Strombolian” activity in the place where its definition was born

The polis of the living and the necropolis of the dead

The senses tell The summit craters

The underwater morphological elements of the Aeolian Islands

The Cathedral of Lipari and the Norman Cloister of the Benedictine Monastery

Pollara, between poetry and beauty

Alicudi, where time has stood still

Stromboli, the volcano that breathes

Filicudi, a submerged paradise

The senses tell The Sciara del Fuoco

The prehistoric village of Cala Junco

The summit craters

The senses tell The salt lake of Lingua

Between brush strokes of sulphur and clouds of steam: the fumaroles of the port of Vulcano

The Sciara del Fuoco

“Vulcanian” eruptions

The Thermal Baths of Saint Calogerus

Tsunamis: a not uncommon phenomenon in Stromboli

Malvasia delle Lipari DOC

Panarea, where sea and volcanoes become sculptors

The senses tell The Stacks of Panarea

The senses tell The Pumice Quarries of Lipari

The stacks of Panarea

Seven islands, dozens of volcanoes

Volcanoes as a natural art form

The salt lake of Lingua

Myths and legends about volcanoes

The senses tell The Village of Capo Graziano

Filicudi: small island, big history

The hidden part of the Aeolian Islands

Salina, the green island with twin mountains

Panarea and its history

The underwater fumarolic activity of Lisca Bianca

Stories of the sea and shipwrecks. The wrecks of the Aeolian Islands

How pumice is formed