EOLIE ISELANDS

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THE HISTORY :
The sea stroke that separates the archipelago from the Sicily coast is really short. And yet the life time distance between the isles and the coast centres is clear. Time hasn't passed at the same speed; and more, it's seems that here the history begins earlier. Their name bring us back to Eolo, the mythological winds god, who choose to live in that places.
The archipelago is untill 90 km along the sicily north-eastern coast, on Tirreno sea . It's composed by seven iselands, all of them with volcanic origin: Filicudi and Alicudi (the older), Salina, Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea and Stromboli (with its still active volcano).
Every isle own its personality, its colors, that distinguishs them one by another: Filicudi ed Alicudi are dark green, becouse of the wonderfull caper bushes that grow on the basaltic rocks; Salina is a bright green, becouse of the woods on the top of its extinguish craters; Lipari is black and white becouse of the obsidian and the pumice; Vulcano is yellow-green, becouse of the sulphur incrustations, and black becouse of the volcanic sands beach; Panarea has amber colors, with brigth green points of the vine and white "dammusi", the tipical houses with the terraces covered by reeds; Stromboli is black during the daytime and incandescent red during the night becouse of the lava eruptions on the "sciara del fuoco". The sounding-depth are rocky, with a bright deep blue, sea.
The iselands weren't continuously inhabitated like the coast villages, and that's why
on its quite vergin soils we can find therests of the old civilizations from the V millenniumo before Christ.
The isles are connected with the port of Milazzo by shuttles and boats.

STROMBOLI VULCANO LIPARI PANAREA SALINA ALICUDI
FILICUDI
 
Every isle is a wonderful piece of paradise, and you can choose to visit the peaceful ones (Alicudi and Filicudi) or to visit the most exlusive ones (Panarea, Stromboli...).