Lipari Island - Italian Smaller Islands

Lipari Island

(Italian: Isola di Lipari)
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The island of Lipari is the largest island in the Aeolian archipelago.
Gives its name to the municipality within which all the islands except the Aeolian island of Salina, whose territory includes the three municipalities of Santa Marina Salina, Malfa and Leni.
The morphology of the island, volcanic, has both white expanses of pumice is dark obsidian flows like that of Red Cliffs, between the villages of reeds and Acquacalda.
This is the result of the final phase of the last eruption of the volcano Monte Sant'Angelo, Campo said White for the color of the white pumice.
The ferry that runs between the islands, offers breathtaking panoramic sea casting.
The island of Lipari is regularly connected to the mainland by ferries and hydrofoils.
The most frequent connections with the port of Milazzo, but there are also links to Messina, Palermo, Reggio Calabria and Naples.

» View the page concerning the tourist area of Lipari Island.