Lampedusa
Lampedusa (Sicilian: Lampidusa) is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and also of Europe. Tunisia, which is about 113 kilometres (70 mi) away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is farther at 176 kilometres (109 mi).
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“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
—Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896–1957)