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Excursions Aeolian Islands

The staff of the Residence Hotel Eolie recommends to his own clients to effect unforgettable excursions in the islands of the archipelago Eoliano. In fact different companies exist, that effect excursions in the various islands with modern and elegant boats and in all safety, to the caves and the faraglionis. Coasting along her and showing panoramas that envy us from the whole world.

The Castle of Lipari (the acropolis) in english

The fortress, note as the Castle, is an imposing dome of it washes volcanic that he stretches out in the sea raising himself thin to a height of around fifty meters.
Today the Castle represents the centre of the cultural life of the Islands Eolie, animated by the daily presence of many visitors that you are able visit the tapes of the history of the Castle through the vision of the archaeological excavations, of the tents of the museum, of the principal churches and of the boundaries of fortification.
The southern extremity of the Castle has been systematized to archaeological park, where I am, besides the church of the Madonna of the Graces, also some tents of the concentration camp that now entertain the deposits of the Museum and the laboratories of restorations. In the park, besides they have been systematized numerous, sarcophagi in stone coming from the Greek necropolis and Roman of Region Daylight and you has been built in 1978 by the Commune of Lipari, , just in the area used during the fascism as it extracts of stone, a theater to the open one on the model of the ancient Greek theaters, destined now in the summer season to shows of various kind.
(Assunta Sardella and Maria Grazia Vanaria).

The museum eoliano:

The Museum, founded in the years '50 with the start of the archaeological excavations, have gone as widening himself with to progress of the searches and with the gradual recovery of the buildings of medieval and modern age. Today the Museum results constituted by five tents: the section of prehistoric archaeology, the section of the smaller islands, the section of classical archaeology, the tent epigraphic, the section of volcanology and the section of biogeography.
The Section of prehistoric Archaeology has centre in the ancient Episcopalian building of the XVIII century. To the inside him see the tapes of the history of the human installations beginning from the Neolitico (V millennium) when people coming from Sicily were installed to Lipari to exploit the lava casting of present ossidiana on the island and to export her in the whole area of the western Mediterranean.
The section of prehistoric archaeology introduces, finally, to the history of Lipari in Greek age and Roman beginning from the foundation of the colony in 580 B.C., with some of the finds picked up by the excavations on the acropolis of the Castle and in the area of the low city.
Of forehead, in the Tent of prehistoric Archaeology of the smaller islands, the finds are preserved coming from the excavations performed in the other islands of the archipelago among which those of the important villages of the age of the Bronze of Filicudi, Panarea and Salina, currently visitable.
The Section of classical Archaeology has center in a building built in the years '20, when on the Castle the field of fascist confinement was installed. In it you is exposed, in prevalence, the archaeological documentation related to the Greek age and Roman coming from the necropolis of region Daylight, that extended him in the plain homonym to the feet of the Castle, out of the boundaries of surrounded (today the area is destined to Archaeological Park).
The archaeological excavations have returned the outfits of around 3000 graves, to a large extent sarcophagi in stone, in terracotta and graves of the type "to cappuccina" of which some marked or stele with commemorative registration. The funeral outfits of Greek age dated among 580 B.C., when Lipari is founded by Greek farmers of you Gnaw and Cnido and 252 B.C., year that marks the Roman destruction of Lipari during the first war punica, they represent the handicraft productions that developed him in the Greek world and in the colonies italiote and siceliote. A room is finally devoted to the submarine archaeology. The thin archaeological material to now recovered, fruit both of the excavations conducted beginning from the years '60, both of occasional recoveries, it originates from around winds wreckages of ships. These, surprises during the navigation from sudden winds, sink against the bluffs or on the shoals in particularly dangerous points of the islands.

Churches and cathedrals:

After the collapse of the Roman empire of west (to.476) they were warned in Sicily the dangers of the vandal raids and the oppression of the Ostrogotis. Insofar the Liparèis, by now Christianization, they held prudent to confine him in the circuit of the Tall City and to move to the same heart of the inhabited area the Episcopal residence.
The new Cathedral - of dimensions a great deal redoubts and not at all comparable to those of the actual church - it was installed in the same site in which, in classical age, believably a pagan Templeton was risen. It was destroyed in the 838 when the Eolies, together with whole Sicily, they became Islamic possession.
Later around 250 years of historical void, the abbot Ambrogio and his Benedictines, sent here by the "liberator" Roger I the Norman one, threw the premises of thecolonize of the territory and the foundation of the City of Lipari and, always in the central site of the Castle they built the church abbatial with the adjoining monastery. The church abbatial, entitled to S. Bartholomew, became Cathedral in 1131 with the promotion to bishop abet Giovanni di Pèrgana.
Giovanni magnified the church (to unique aisle) and also the monastery that developed him around the cloister (the first Latin-Norman cloister of Sicily) of whose four native ambulatories are three recently brought to the light advanced of it.
Fully absorbed, for long centuries, and polling in the mean of the tangle of houses of the ancient urban fabric, the Cathedral was witness of the religious and civil life of the island people. And it is ordinarily for such motive that the believers they call her Citàti, because it, the Cathedral, is highly representative synthesis of a City that is not anymore, and centre propeller of that extraordinary admitting strength that ties all the children of the Eolies, the neighbors and the distant ones.