Aeolian or Lipari Islands
The Aeolian Islands, “the seven sisters” all share the same quaternary volcanic origin and where formed as a result of the millenary accomulation of eruptive material and raising of the sea floor.
Only two volcanoes off the vast original system are still active today.
Archaological investigation has continued ever since 1946 thanks to the soprintendenza ai beni culturali (cultural heritage Authority). Excavations have suggested that the settlements in lipari, from the 4th millenium BC onwards, might be the result of migratory flows from the sicilian coasts,on account of decrated pottery in the style peculiar to the so-called Stentinello culture found on the mountainous spurs of lipari. After various greek periods civilitations began in 580 BC, where the cnidians, back from Pentathlus' unsuccessful expetidions, landed at lipari and founded the colony. Until the roman conquest, lipari followed the fortunes of sicily in the wider contest of the secular struggles among greeks, carthaginians and romans to gain the control of island.
In 836 A.D the arabs destroyed lipari and it was only under Roger,Norman Count of sicily from 1083, that the island and the archipelago revived, also thanks to an active group of benedictine monks who founded a monastery on the ancient acropolis by norman decree.
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