Lampedusa
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Lampedusa 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 Italy's southernmost island. Tunisia, which is about Template:Convert away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is farther at Template:Convert, whilst the island nation of Malta is Template:Convert to the east.
Lampedusa has an area of Template:Convert and a population of about 6,000 people. Its main industries are fishing, agriculture, and tourism. A ferry service links the island with Porto Empedocle, near Agrigento, Sicily. There are also year-round flights from Lampedusa Airport to Palermo and Catania on the Sicilian mainland. In the summer, there are additional services to Rome and Milan, besides many other seasonal links with the Italian mainland.
Since the early 2000s, the island has become a primary European entry point for migrants, mainly coming from Africa.
In popular culture
- Lampedusa was the filming location for the music video of Mango's single "Mediterraneo", from the album Come l'acqua (1992).* The movie Respiro (2002), written and directed by Emanuele Crialese and starring Valeria Golino, was filmed entirely on Lampedusa.
- The book The Pharaoh's Secret (2015) by popular fiction author Clive Cussler features Lampedusa as the scene of a mysterious deathly mist.
- Think of Lampedusa collection of poems by the 2014 Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize Josué Guébo, refers to the 2013 shipwreck near Lampedusa.
- The 2017 Oscar-nominated Italian documentary, Fire at Sea, was filmed entirely on the island between 2014 and 2015.
See also
- African immigration to Europe
- 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
- Linosa
- Pantelleria
- Pelagie Islands
- LORAN-C transmitter Lampedusa
- Lampedusa Airport
- Quadro Group
