Aeolian Islands

Welcome to the Regional Archaeological Museum Luigi Bernabò Brea, located atop the legendary Castle Fortress Rock of Lipari in the Aeolian Archipelago. This magnificent volcanic citadel stands as an impenetrable natural…

Over seven thousand years ago, long before the invention of metallurgy, sharp black volcanic glass known as obsidian from Monte Pelato transformed this remote island into the wealthiest and most dynamic trading hub in the Western…

Around two thousand three hundred BC, Mycenaean Greek traders sailed thousands of nautical miles across the Mediterranean to secure crucial trade routes for copper and tin, a legendary era immortalized in Homeric myth. Step…

Around thirteen hundred BC, during a period of sudden turmoil and conquest, villagers concealed a public treasury containing nearly eighty kilograms of bronze metal inside a single clay jar buried under a hut floor. Please step…

Deep beneath the Acropolis rock, archaeologists excavated a subterranean sacred offering pit known as a bothros, sealed over six meters deep beneath a massive stone lid carved into a reclining lion with open jaws. Step into the…

Directly beneath your feet lie the overlapping stone foundations of prehistoric huts and ancient public buildings spanning over three thousand years, each layer constructed directly atop the burnt ruins of earlier civilizations.…

As we conclude our archaeological tour here on the castle cliff promenade, take a moment to gaze out over the glowing Tyrrhenian Sea and the surrounding volcanic islands of the Aeolian Archipelago. Today we have traveled across…