Il Devotissimo Viaggio di Gerusalemme

1595

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[Rome]: Domenico Basa

The Tremiti archipelago sits in the Adriatic Sea, 36 kilometres off the coast in the northeast of the Puglia region. San Domino (the largest island) and San Nicola are inhabited by about 400 permanent residents; the other three islands, Capraia, Cretaccio and Pianosa, are all uninhabited. The archipelago has always been ideal for the purposes of confinement – an abbey was established on San Nicola in the 9th century; in 1911, 1300 Libyans were imprisoned on the islands because they had resisted the Italian colonisation of their country; and Mussolini interned political prisoners and homosexuals on San Domino as part of his Fascist regime. These days the islands are flooded with around 100,000 tourists in the summer months.