Unesco Aeolian Islands card
Year of inclusion in the World Heritage List: 2000
Le Aeolian Islands also known as the Lipari Islands, they are an archipelago of volcanic origin, located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the province of Messina, north of the Sicilian coast. They include two active volcanoes, Stromboli and Vulcano, as well as various secondary volcanism phenomena. The archipelago is made up of the following islands: Alicudi, Filicudi, Lipari, Panarea, Salina and Stromboli.
The criteria adopted byUnesco for the registration of the site in the World Heritage Site.
The Committee decided to insert the area on the basis of criterion (viii) (former criterion i): The peculiar volcanic aspects of the islands represent in an exemplary way the object of world volcanology studies. Thanks to the research started in the 200th century, the islands have allowed the deepening of the two types of eruption (Vulcan and Strombolian) and the treatment of the most important themes of modern volcanology and geology, contributing to the formation of a class of scientists in over XNUMX years of research The islands still continue to be a rich field of studies and continuous processes that are still changing the appearance of the landscape and the geological composition of the archipelago.
location:
Mediterranean Sea . Aeolian Islands (EN) - Sicily N382916.3 E145644.1
Unesco document: ICOMOS N ° 908
Unesco web page: Access the Unesco area Site area: 1216 hectares Unesco Site Management Plan: Access the Management Plan
Unesco Aeolian Islands card
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