Lipari

How pumice is formed

Pumice is a magmatic rock caused by very violent explosive eruptions. If you look closely at a small pumice stone you will see very small round holes that are not connected to each other and therefore do not allow water to penetrate the rock.
This makes it a rock with a lower density than water, with the result that it floats.
Pumice is formed during a highly energetic and explosive event when there is a rapid loss of pressure in the system. In particular, when the solidified rock cap of the surface part of the conduit is ripped apart by an explosion due to accumulated gas, a decompression is created in the conduit that reaches the magma chamber below.
This fast decrease in pressure allows all the gases that were dissolved in the magma to form small bubbles, which by joining together, will form magma foam. This foam is then brought to the surface at high speed, dispersed in the eruption cloud and falls back into the surrounding area.

Stromboli, the volcano that breathes

The underwater fumarolic activity of Lisca Bianca

Alicudi, where time has stood still

Salina, the green island with twin mountains

Between brush strokes of sulphur and clouds of steam: the fumaroles of the port of Vulcano

The stacks of Panarea

The hidden part of the Aeolian Islands

Vulcano, the youngest of the Aeolian works of art

The prehistoric village of Cala Junco

The Village of Capo Graziano

Stories of the sea and shipwrecks. The wrecks of the Aeolian Islands

Lipari, where history intertwines with volcanoes to create archaeology

Pollara, between poetry and beauty

Panarea and its history

Seven islands, dozens of volcanoes

Malvasia delle Lipari DOC

Volcanoes as a natural art form

The ancient production of salt

Panarea, where sea and volcanoes become sculptors

“Vulcanian” eruptions

The Aeolian Islands, where volcanology was born

The senses tell The summit craters

How pumice is formed

The Sciara del Fuoco

Filicudi: small island, big history

The senses tell The Village of Capo Graziano

The malleability of Vulcano’s mud

Tsunamis: a not uncommon phenomenon in Stromboli

The Gran Cratere of the Fossa: when the volcano becomes a sculptor

The salt lake of Lingua

The Thermal Baths of Saint Calogerus

The polis of the living and the necropolis of the dead

Where do Vulcano’s gases come from?

The senses tell The Stacks of Panarea

The summit craters

The senses tell The salt lake of Lingua

The senses tell The Pumice Quarries of Lipari

The 2002-03 eruption

The underwater morphological elements of the Aeolian Islands

The senses tell The Sciara del Fuoco

The Cathedral of Lipari and the Norman Cloister of the Benedictine Monastery

Filicudi, a submerged paradise

Myths and legends about volcanoes

Lipari at the centre of Mediterranean history

The pure white of the pumice quarries

Lipari Castle, “fused” with the lava

At the heart of trade in history

“Strombolian” activity in the place where its definition was born