Eolie Islands

The Aeolian Islands form a volcanic chain in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily. Lipari, Salina, Vulcano, Stromboli, Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea rise from the water in a broken arc. Lipari, the largest, supplied obsidian in the Neolithic age, when the sharp volcanic glass was fashioned into tools and carried across the Mediterranean. Stromboli's continuing eruptions and Vulcano's craters give the islands a landscape shaped by fire as well as sea.