Lampedusa is one of the last sites in the Mediterranean where the Caretta sea turtle reproduces and nests regularly. The first to observe the nesting as already written was Dieter Gramentz. In the bygone summer ...
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 ...
It was way back in 1985, a group of young people, little more than fifteen-year-old Lampedusans including me, in the middle of a quiet summer evening, bored of the usual summer evenings, decided to go ...
Along the southwestern side of Lampedusa, a few meters from the coast there is the famous Island of Rabbits. The island owes its origin to the incessant and to the impetuous effects of the exogenous ...
Qahr al-luhum From this sentence in Arabic, which literally means wound in the flesh, certainly does not smell of roses (rotting meat), hence the name of European Caralluma, also called Ragged Tiger, the only one ...
Elatine gussonei (Sommier) Brullo & al. In the middle of the almost “desert” of Lampedusa, walking in the void, just for the sake of getting lost among the rocks of the island and searching for ...
At the beginning of the summer, she begins his long journey to stay in Lampedusa and for that reason she goes by sea, you may be lucky enough to meet her while she flying by ...
It’s been a long time since, during a dive on the “scoglio del Dentice”, near the island of rabbits, we found several shells of Argonauta. The dive is not the most simple of Lampedusa, go ...
One hundred eighty-six. These are the years that have passed since Giovanni Gussone, in a famous travel he set foot on the island of Lampedusa. So it was 1828, fifteen years before the island was ...