The King visits Lampedusa – June 23, 1847

The island of Lampedusa erected as a colony of Bernardo Sanvisente.
Bernardo Sanvisente writes, the colony of Lampedusa was already underway and a great job had already been done. Unexpectedly and without notice, the rulers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinando Carlo Maria di Borbone, his wife Maria Isabella of Spain, Prince Francis II of Bourbon as well as the general Carlo Filangieri prince of Satriano, visit the island of Lampedusa. astonishment, of Bernardo Sanvisente was great and as he wrote for nothing prepared for this eventuality. The knight in his memoir, he notes, as the royals made great donations to the colonists during the visit and above all to the class of single women, in order to favor the weddings. Great praises were made to Sanvisente for the work done but as he transcribed new provisions were issued and solicited the things that remained to be done. At that time 700 people lived on the island, and at the time of the visit of the sovereigns there were already the seven palaces along the present via V. Emanuele which each had 10 dwellings, ten other houses had been built behind the seven palaces and still to ten scattered, for a total of 90 total homes.

Ferdinando II delle due Sicilie

Francesco II delle due Sicilie

Maria Cristina di Savoia