È uno scoglio in mezzo al Tirreno, lungo meno di due chilometri, dove furono confinate le menti più eccelse dell’antifascismo: da Pertini a Terracini, da Ravera a Bei. Qui è sepolto Altiero Spinelli che con Colorni e Rossi ideò il Manifesto dell’Europa unita

It is a rock in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, less than two kilometres long, where the most sublime minds of anti-fascism were confined: from Pertini to Terracini, from Ravera to Bei. Altiero Spinelli, who with Colorni and Rossi conceived the Manifesto of a United Europe, is buried here.

Ventotene, the island of confinement and the protagonists of Italian history

A singular journey, in the shadow of the volcano, to a place bubbling with water, where the streets are bordered by huge hydrangeas and the flaming ears of kahili ginger and the ocean is furrowed by 23 species of cetaceans, including the world's largest whales

Letter from the Island of Giants

A very special oasis that juts out over the Seine, in the centre of the large and noisy Île-de-France, the ancient heart of the capital. A protected place, to be kept safe: better that the mass of tourists do not know and invade the arcane shelter

Island of silence in the teeming chaos of Paris

The island is womanly, fertile and welcoming. Its name smacks of the sea, it becomes a metaphor for something else, like everything in Sicily. Here, the art of imagining and chatting, with the reverberations of the unspoken, serves to build better ideas of society and adulthood. As Prince Tomasi knew

Mother of silences and passionate conversations

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Tilos. The Dodecanese island is covered with terraces, made 2,500 years ago to cultivate grain for the army that was to invade Greece, but there are no trees: when, after the Second World War, not a single one remained, everyone emigrated to Australia

Shaped like an 's', like the stories it tells you

In the shape of an 's', like the stories it tells you

In August there are crowds, it's hot and you sweat. Dearest, it was better before when no one knew it. Having exhausted the clichés, the island opposite Naples is a wonderful contradiction. So better to find new spots to explore it. And there are some...

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In Ithaca, the small villages are full of history but traces of the Odyssey are scarce: Homer's School, a few coins from 400-300 BC and a terracotta fragment from 200 BC with the hero's name

Ulysses, a ghost under the stars

In Ithaca, the villages are full of history, but there are few traces of the Odyssey: a few coins and a fragment of earthenware with the hero's name on it

Tricase. They call it the Island, but it is just a rock on the Adriatic coast of lower Lecce, where no tourists come. It is a place frequented only by locals, who bathe without ever going near it. They know that whoever touches its rocks is transformed into a sea creature

Splash!  A mermaid in Salento

Lofoten. Late 1970s: some friends wanted to get to the archipelago on the ferry from Bergen but the cabin caught fire, as did the hotel: at that point, all that was left to do was to respect the evil spirits of the Nordic Olympus, say goodbye and thank you very much

On the coastal express and without the favour of the gods

Patmos. Skala, the commercial and tourist part, and the Hora, the oldest area with white lime streets between centuries-old houses interlocked with each other and everywhere many small white chapels: those who built them were entitled to a substantial reduction in taxes

Looking for black sheep on the island of the apocalypse

Ischia. Eight boys from Liceo Manzoni's III A high school reunite to remember the high school year that was. The air is warm and the plants verdant for a holiday that prefers nature to museums: first the La Mortella Gardens, then the beaches and thermal baths. And a poetry that unites them

The island of veterans, inspired by fosco without praising it

Rhodes. A chance meeting makes me discover a piece of Shoah history: a mysterious woman reveals that every year, the descendants of those deported from the island to Auschwitz gather in that hotel. Of the two thousand people in the community very few returned

The Elegant Lady and the Rite of Return

Somewhere in the Aeolian Islands... A path among myrtles and gorse, fumes, discussions on Lacan, dehydrated capers and someone trying to reproduce, note for note, Keith Jarrett's 'Köln Concert'. And at sunset, an original gimlet corrected to find its way to paradise

Gin and prickly pears, exotic cocktails under the volcano

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Ventotene, the island of confinement and the protagonists of Italian history

Letter from the Island of Giants

Island of silence in the teeming chaos of Paris

Mother of silences and passionate conversations

Icarus flies in non-places

In the shape of an 's', like the stories it tells you

What a pair of stacks, if you're only going for selfies!

Ulysses, the ghost under the stars

Splash! A mermaid in Salento

On the coastal express and without the favour of the gods

Looking for black sheep on the island of the apocalypse

The island of veterans, inspired by fosco without praising it

The Elegant Lady and the Rite of Return

Gin and prickly pears, exotic cocktails under the volcano

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