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Lampedusa was the filming location for the music video of Mango's single "Mediterraneo", from the album Come l'acqua (1992). [ 51 ] The movie Respiro (2002), written and directed by Emanuele Crialese and starring Valeria Golino , was filmed entirely on Lampedusa.
The studio version appears on Wider Circles (2015), and a live version appears on Alive. [24] The lyrics of the Woody Guthrie song "Ingrid Bergman" (set to music & released on the 1998 album Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg & Wilco) focus on images of the actress in the Rossellini film Stromboli, and erotic references to the island's volcanic nature.
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The Pelagie Islands (Italian: Isole Pelagie; Sicilian: Ìsuli Pilaggî), from the Greek πέλαγος, pélagos meaning "open sea", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily. To the northwest lie the island of Pantelleria and the Strait of Sicily.
Sicily and its surrounding small islands have some highly active volcanoes. This is due to Sicily being geographically on the northern edge of the African Plate. [11] Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe and casts black ash over the island with its recurrent eruptions. It stands 3,403 metres (11,165 ft) high as of September 2024. [12]
Pantelleria (Italian pronunciation: [pantelleˈɾiːa]; [3] Sicilian: Pantiḍḍirìa; [pandɪɖɖɪˈɾiːa]), known in ancient times as Cossyra or Cossura, is an Italian island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 106 kilometres (55 nautical miles) southwest of Sicily and 68 km (35 nmi) east of the Tunisian coast.
The music of Sicily is created by peoples from the isle of Sicily.It was shaped by the island's history, from the island's great presence as part of Magna Grecia 2,500 years ago, through various historical incarnations as a part of the Roman Empire, then as an independent state as the Emirate of Sicily then as an integral part of the Kingdom of Sicily and later the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ...
Territorially, both Sicily and Sardinia include several minor islands and archipelagoes that are administratively dependent on the mother islands. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean (25,708 km 2) and one of the largest of Europe, while Sardinia is only slightly less extensive (24,090 km 2). The lowlands are generally limited in ...