Walkers' Transport

The Aeolian Islands Now

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June 12th 2012
To visit or walk on the Aeolian Islands is something you can do all year round. This time of the year - early June - it's idyllic. You may or may not know that King Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, was the one who gave Ulysses, from the Odyssey, a bag of winds to blow him back safely to Ithaca. Unfortunately for him he fell asleep on the job and his crew opened up the bag, thinking it was fu ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily » Lipari

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more