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This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450 islands in Italy, including islands in the Mediterranean Sea (including the marginal seas: Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Libyan Sea, Ligurian Sea, Sea of Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea, and inland islands in lakes and rivers. The largest island is Sicily with an area of 25,711 km 2 (9,927 sq mi).
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La Maddalena (Gallurese: Madalena or La Madalena, Sardinian: Sa Madalena) is a town and comune located on the islands of the Maddalena archipelago in the province of Sassari, northern Sardinia, Italy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [2] The main town of the same name is located on the ...
Palmarola is a craggy, mostly uninhabited island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy. It is the second-largest of the Pontine Islands and located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west from Ponza. In antiquity it was known as Palmaria. [1] Palmarola has an extremely rocky coast dotted with natural grottos, bays, cliffs, and crags. The ...
The Tuscan Archipelago is a chain of islands between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea, west of Tuscany, Italy. The islands' proximity to several major cities has made them a favourite tourist location. History and literature have ensured that most people are familiar with the islands of Elba and Montecristo.
The island's name is derived from combination of the words sacca, Venetian for an artificial island, and sessola, a tool used to remove water from ships. Sacca Sessola is one of the biggest islands in the lagoon, with an area of 16.03 ha (40 acres), and also one of the youngest.
Tronchetto (also known as Isola nuova, meaning "New island") is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located at the westernmost tip of the main Venice island. The island was created in the 1960s, and now is used as a car park for tourists, who cannot bring their vehicles into the city. [ 1 ]
At the southern end of the island is Alberoni, an area of sand dunes. It has Venice's golf course [6] and the Alberoni Dune Oasis which has one of the largest and best-preserved dune systems on the coasts of the Northern Adriatic Sea, with dunes up to 10 meters high, a large, c. 30 hectares, pine forest and unique species of flora and fauna. [7]