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The island of Lipari is the larger island of the eoliano archipelago. It gives the name the common one in which all are placed the Aeolian islands except the island of Salt, whose territory comprises the three common ones of Saint Salt Marina, Malfa and Leni. The morphology of the island, vulcanica, introduces is extended white women of pomici that dark obsidian taps as that one of the Rocche Red, between the villages of Canneto and Acquacalda. The island introduces attracted traces of human takeovers sin from the neolithic one from the obsidian wealth, matter prince of the implements from cut of the preistoria; the outline of such takeover rispecchia that one of the culture of Stentinello. The water presence favors the development of the takeovers and the birth of ceramic productive activities. Obvious traces of commerce are already found to leave from XVI the century a.C. The Lipari name, according to Sicilian Diodoro, derives from Liparo, the king of the Ausoni that around to the 1400 a.C. invaded the island, and they constructed one called city to you Lipara. These you remained until the 1270 a.C. and the period represents one of the piu' healthy from the point of view trades given them to the strategic position on the routes of navigation between the west and east of the Mediterranean Mar. Archaeological Eoliano, on the acropoli in via of the Castle, is one of the piu' interesting in absolute and with its reperti it is the testimony of beyond 5000 years of civilization of the island and the archipelago. E' one of the piu' important of the Mediterranean and introduces in chronological order exposures of funerari equipments, is gone, cippi, tombali steles and sarcofagi in stone that testifies of the evolution of the cult of the defunct ones. Moreover ceramic of several types and fogge, teatrali masks and fittili statues. The historical center of Lipari is dominated from the Castle place on a cape; its construction laughed them to remote times, with one making tower part of the Greek fortifications of the IV-III century to C., with medioevali towers of the century XIII° and curtains building of Spanish age. To the inside of the town-walls the rimaneggiata Cathedral normanna of 1084 in several ages remains archaeological and, until 1861 with the facade in baroccheggiante style. To flank the rests of the Abbey normanna. The island of Lipari is regularly connected to the mainland from ships ferry and hydrofoils. The connections piu' you attend are with the port of Milazzo, but there are connections also with Messina, Sant' Agate of Militello and Naples. The municipal district of Lipari is in the region/district of Sicily and it's in the province of Messina. the postcode is 98055 and the code number is +39 090. Inhabitants are 10.240 and the surface is about 88 km2, with a density of population about 116 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 433 km, from Florence 663 km and from Venice 803 km.
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