Stromboli

The senses tell The Sciara del Fuoco

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The 4 elements: water, fire, earth and air

The Sciara del Fuoco is ideal for appreciating the view of the 4 natural elements: the fire of the volcanic products; the earth of the Sciara; the blue sea water and, not to be underestimated, a very pure air that carries the brackish sea air.

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Rolling down the Sciara

On the edge of the Sciara you will hear nothing but explosions, followed a few seconds later by blocks and volcanic bombs rolling down the slope. Listen closely to this rolling, trying to catch the moment when the blocks fall into the sea.

The pure white of the pumice quarries

Where do Vulcano’s gases come from?

The Sciara del Fuoco

The senses tell The salt lake of Lingua

Lipari Castle, “fused” with the lava

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

Panarea and its history

The ancient production of salt

Filicudi, a submerged paradise

The senses tell The Pumice Quarries of Lipari

Pollara, between poetry and beauty

The salt lake of Lingua

The 2002-03 eruption

The summit craters

At the heart of trade in history

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

Stromboli, the volcano that breathes

The polis of the living and the necropolis of the dead

How pumice is formed

Panarea, where sea and volcanoes become sculptors

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

Vulcano, the youngest of the Aeolian works of art

The Thermal Baths of Saint Calogerus

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

The senses tell The Village of Capo Graziano

Filicudi: small island, big history

Lipari, where history intertwines with volcanoes to create archaeology

The stacks of Panarea

The Village of Capo Graziano

Lipari at the centre of Mediterranean history

The malleability of Vulcano’s mud

Volcanoes as a natural art form

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

The underwater morphological elements of the Aeolian Islands

The senses tell The Sciara del Fuoco

The senses tell The Stacks of Panarea

Seven islands, dozens of volcanoes

The underwater fumarolic activity of Lisca Bianca

The senses tell The summit craters

The prehistoric village of Cala Junco

Salina, the green island with twin mountains

The Aeolian Islands, where volcanology was born

“Vulcanian” eruptions

Tsunamis: a not uncommon phenomenon in Stromboli

Malvasia delle Lipari DOC

Myths and legends about volcanoes

The hidden part of the Aeolian Islands

Alicudi, where time has stood still