| Page Views: 4,425 Last Visit to Isola di Lampedusa: October, 2003 | Lampedusa by jeffmartinartist - last update: May 3, 2005 |
Lampedusa is an Italian island, which is closer to Tunisia than it is to Sicily and the African meets Italian culture is fantastic. The island had a big American base for quite a while after Libya, under Gheddafi, fired missiles at it in 1986. The missiles missed the island by a long shot but in came the Americans and the up side is they propped up the island economy and left pretty good infrastructure for us tourists.
The book to read before or during you time on Lampedusa is The Leopard (IL Gattopardo), by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Some may have seen the film by Luchino Visconti staring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale. |
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tmaresh Tue Apr 25, 2006 18:03 UTC
Very thoughtful! Maybe I could persuade my friends to visit here instead of Tunisia! | elpariente Fri Mar 24, 2006 19:13 UTC
Sicilia and Lampedusa are on my "pendings" list Your pages are very good | Bwana_Brown Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:17 UTC
Jeff, an excellent account of your visit to this speck of an island, one that I had forgotten even existed!! It looks like a nice place to get away from it all. | nicolettart Wed Jun 8, 2005 16:30 UTC
Thanks for the tip on Il Gattopardo. This area of Italy is on my "to-do" list. |
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