Italy

Asinara is a small island in front of Sardinia, which is nowadays a national park. Their surface amounts to 50,9 sq.km and it has a population of 700 inhabitants. A characteristic of the small island are the leuzistic white donkeys, which are under strict protection.

 

The Borromäi islands (it. Isole Borromee) are a group of four islands in the Italian part of the Lago Maggiore. They are situated in the gulf of Verbania, between Verbania in the north and Stresa in the south. The Isola Madre is the largest of the four islands and is well - known for its gardens held in the English style. The palace is uninhabited.

 

Burano is one of the larger islands in the lagoon of Venice. On it are living about 4.800 inhabitants. Burano is connected with the neighbour island Mazzorbo by a timber bridge. Both islands are belonging to the earliest settlement places in the lagoon of Venice.

 

Capraia is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to the Toskani archipelago of the region Toskana in Italy. It is situated between the Cap Corse in the north of Corsica and the Italian mainland.

 

Capri is an Italian rock island in the gulf of Neapel. It is 10,4 sq.km largely and is well - known for the beautiful beaches and the caves at the sea. The most well-known is the blue grotto. The highest point of the island is with 589 m over the sea level the Monte Solaro. The island belongs to the province Neapel.

 

The islands Cheradi in the gulf of Tarent are a small archipelago, which closes in the southwest the harbor basin of the Mar Grande of Tarent, which is the gulf of the same name. The archipelago consists of two islands: Simon Petrus and San Paolo. The islands are also rich at marine life and sponges.

 

Elba is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to the Tuskany archipelago of the region Tuskany in Italy (province Livorno). It is scarcely 20 km far away from the Italian mainland. Today are 32.000 persons in 8 municipalities living in the winter on the island.

 

Giannutri is the most southern island of the Tuskany archipelago. It has the form of a half moon and extends over approximately 260 hectares and belongs administratively to the municipality of the island Giglio.

 

Isola del Giglio is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to the region Tuskany in Italy. It is situated 50 km in the southeast of Elba and 18 km in the west of the peninsula Monte Argentario. Around the island there are good diving districts.

 

Giudecca is one in the south of Venice convenient island grown together from originally six, later from three parts, which is separated from the lagoon city by the channel of the same name (Canale della Giudecca). The travel of the Markus place takes not more than three minutes with a public diesel engine boat (Vaporetto).

Gorgona is an Italian Mediterranean island, the most northern and the smallest island of the Tuskany archipelago in the region Tuskany. It is appropriate for 34 km in front of the port Livorno in the Liguri sea. You can visit Gorgona only on Tuesdays in the summer months in small groups after advance notification.

 

Ischia is an Italian island. It is with its 46 sq.km the largest island in the gulf of Neapel.

Several therapeutic baths are present on the island, because the island is of volcanic origin. The once connotatively industry of the fine basketry exists likewise only in folkloristic - touristic used remainders.

 

The Isola Maggiore is situated 307 meters over the sea level in the Trasimenian lake. The island is one of the most popular Umbrian vacation areas. Particularly on weekends the tourists populate the small place with the only - free of traffic - residential street, the via Guglielmi. Today still about 40 humans are living of fishing, the knipling and the tourism.

 

The Isola di Garda is the largest island in the Garda lake. The island is situated a few hundred meters in front of the Cap San Fermo, which locks the gulf of San Felice del Benaco, between Salò and San Felice del Benaco.

 

La Maddalena is an Italian archipelago in front of Sardinia. The archipelago is situated in front of the northeast coast of Sardinia, between Sardinia and Corsica. It forms the La-Maddalena-archipelago-national park. Branches of main income of the archipelago are the tourism and a military base of the USA.

 

Lazaretto nuovo is an island in the lagoon of Venice and is situated in the northeast of the city. The island is at the present a trip goal for owners of boats , who wants to be under itself.

 

Lazzaretto Vecchio is an island in the lagoon of Venice in the south of the city, directly in front of the Lido. Today the island is a home for abandoned dogs, and/or a general animal shelter.

 

Mazzorbo is an island in the lagoon of Venice, which is located directly beside the island Burano. With this it is connected by a simple timber bridge. Beside some houses from the 16. and 17. Century is still the church Santa Caterina from the 14. Century worth mentioning, in whose Campanile the oldest bell of the lagoon (1318) hangs.

 

Montecristo is an Italian island, in the half-way between Corsica and the Italian mainland, in the south of Elba and in the west of Giglio. The uninhabited island belongs to the Tuskany archipelago.

 

Murano is an island in the northeast of Venice in the lagoon with 6.000 inhabitants. It became world-famous by the glassblowing. Murano can be reached from Venice with the Vaporetto.

 

Nisida is with a surface from 29 hectars beside Ischia, Capri, Procida and Vivara the fifth-largest island in the gulf of Neapel. Despite its smallness is the island important for its historical reasons and because of their delightful situation.

 

Pellestrina is an island in the Adria and forms a part of the conclusion of the lagoon of Venice in the face of the Adria. The today's inhabitants are living on fishing and tourism. In the last years increased the bicycle tourism strongly.

 

Pianosa is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea and is situated in the south of the island Elba. It belongs to the Tuskany archipelago. The entire island and the surrounding sea are belonging to the national park Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano and cannot be individually visited.

 

The Isola Polvese is with its 5,4 sq.km the largest of the three islands in the Trasimenian lake. The island was long time inhabited by fishermen, while Olivetanian monks it nearly completely planted with olive groves, until they fled 1624 from the malaria to Perugia.

 

The Pontinian islands (also mentioned “Ponza islands” ) are an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea in front of the coast of Campania and are belonging to Italy. It consists of the islands Ponza (named-giver for the archipelago and the principal place), Palmarola and Zannone in the west as well as Ventotene and Santo Stefano in the east.

 

The island Poveglia is situated in the south of Venice, on the height of Malamocco in the lagoon. At the present are wine and vegetable gardens controlling the island; plans and investors are missing, in order to animate the island accordingly.

 

Procida is an island in the gulf of Neapel. It is at the same time the name of the principal place, which has 10.000 inhabitants. The coastal line is about 16 km long. The island is only reachable by ship from Neapel, Pozzuoli or Ischia.

 

The Sacca Fisola is an artificial by fills created island in the lagoon of Venice. It belongs to the quarter Dorsoduro of Venice and is used as populated area. Sacca Fisola is situated between the island Giudecca and the island Sacca San Biago, which serves a combustion plant for the urban garbage as location.

 

The island Sacca Sessola is situated in the south of the city Venice in the lagoon. It exists since the year 1870.

The island San Clemente is situated in the south of the city Venice along the channel, which is used by the ships with direction Malamocco.

The island San Francesco del Deserto, situated in the north of Venice between the islands Burano and Sant'Erasmo, may be called one of the most beautiful in the lagoon of Venice. The island is only reachable with private boats from Burano or Sant'Erasmo.

 

San Giorgio Maggiore is an island in Venice, which is southward pre-aged to the basin of San Marco (bacino). Monastery and church on the island have the same names.

Lord Byron learned here the Armenian language, some memorabilia refers to his stay.

 

San Michele (the island of the dead ones) is an island in the north of Venice. On San Michele is the cemetery of Venice located.

The island San Pietro di Castello, originally Olivolo, is situated at the eastern end of the city Venice in the proximity of the arsenal in the Sestiere Castello.

 

San Servolo is an island, that belongs to Italy in the lagoon from Venice and in the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore. The rich flora of the island is remarkable.

 

Sant´Elena is a small island in the lagoon of Venice. It is situated at the eastern end of the city and is connected with this by three bridges. In former times the city ended within the range S. Antonio, where today the Giardini Pubblici and the area of the Biennale are.

The island Sant'Erasmo (designated after Erasmus of Antiochia) is the largest island in the lagoon of Venice and serves the supply of the city Venice with vegetables. Castraure di Sant'Erasmo, young artichokes, as well as the sparselle, green, completely thin asparagus are famous.

 

The island Santa Cristina is situated in the lagoon of Venice, in the northeast of Torcello. Their name is derived from the holy one, whose mortal remnants from Konstantinopel were stolen and afterwards in the San Marco dedicated church land.

 

Santo Spirito is an island in the lagoon of Venice. It is situated in the south of Venice, between the islands San Clemente and Poveglia. Today the island is uninhabited, in the past a church of Sansovino had been there.

 

Santo Stefano is an island in the gulf of Gaeta in front of the Italian coast, in the west of Neapel. It belongs to the Pontinian islands and is situated for 1,6 km in the southeast of the island Ventotene. The island consists of a rock with a surface of approximately 250.000 square meters and a height of up to 80 meters over the sea level.

 

The Tiberisland is a small island in the river Tiber in Rome. The island resembles a ship in its form, and a obelisk, which was in former times in the center of the island, the obelisk underlined this similarity as „mast“.

 

Torcello is a nearly uninhabited island in the laguna morta, the northern part of the lagoon of Venice, in which tides are no longer noticeable. Today not even more than 100 inhabitants are living on Torcello.

 

The Tuskany archipelago (Italian Arcipelago Toscano) is situated in front of the coast of the Tuskany and consists of seven main islands: Elba (Napoleon's 1. Exile), Giglio, Giannutri, Montecristo, Capraia, Pianosa and Gorgona. Under the small islands, Montecristo attained literary celebrity. The islands of the Tuskany archipelago are called also Tyrrhenian islands (Isole Tirrene).

The Tremitian islands are situated in the Italian Adria in the region Apulia. They are consisting of the following islands: San Domino, San Nicola, Capraia, Cretaccio and Pianosa. They are together about three square kilometers large. The islands are defined in the today's time as protected area.

Tronchetto (Isola de Tronchetto) is an island in the lagoon of Venice, which is situated in the west of the city and the Sestiere Santa Croce is associated with it. The island is connected with the city by several Vaporetto lines, as well as with taxi boats (very expensive).

 

Ventotene is one of the Pontinian islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of the coast of Campania and belongs to Italy. The island has a surface of approximately 153 hectares and is from volcanic origin. The objects of interest are the church Santa Candida, the remnants of the Villa di Giulia, as well as the surrounding diving districts.

 

Vignole is a small island in the lagoon of Venice and is situated in the south of the island Sant'Erasmo. It is attainable with the Vaporetto line 13. Vignole serves - like the island Sant'Erasmo - by the vegetable growing the supply of the city Venice. Except some private houses there is still another Trattoria at the island at present (2005).