What does Emanuele Crialese have to do with Lampedusa? For the few who do not know him, Emanuele Crialese is a Roman director of Sicilian origins. On wikipedia we read “Emanuele Crialese was born on ...
Spring has arrived, its scent is already in the air. Orange flowers and other species inebriate the air. Whales have already passed, the first animals to arrive here in Lampedusa that herald the end of ...
A few hours ago, it became known that Folco Quilici, a pioneer of scuba diving, a scissor, a director, a photographer and beyond, died. Great friend of Lampedusa and its people, as well as of ...
It is said that an inhabitant of the then village of Castellaro in Liguria. Andrea Anfossi – nicknamed “Gagliardo” – was, according to one version, taken prisoner in 1561 by Turkish pirates who attacked the ...
“But how do you spend the time to Lampedusa?” This is’ the phrase that recurs by many of those who live on “mainland”, implying that on an island of 20 square kilometers with about 6000 ...
In the great book of nature, there is a small bird called Limosa lapponica, Bar-tailed Godwit in Italian. So no one would dare to look at him imagine what it can do. Yet, as the ...
The Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a small bird, wader. In spite of its small size is a great migratory. It winters in the southern hemisphere, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian sub-continent, Indonesia, South East Asia and ...
The necropolis of Lampedusa is early Christian! Although other excavations, those of Cala Salina and others, are of the second century AD and T. Ashby and Sanvisente speak of artifacts and archaeological finds much older. ...
The bee-eater (Merops apiaster Linnaeus, 1758) is a tropical-looking bird, he has the colors of the rainbow, belongs to the family Meropidae. It feeds on insects, especially bees (Hymenoptera), hence the scientific name, (but also ...