It is worth a visit, for this is not only redolent of old Sicily but closely connected with the feudal lords of the town, the Tomasi di Lampedusa. In the convent church, beneath the tomb of a ...

Italian officials say 370 migrants were rescued from three boats in the waters between Libya and Sicily on Tuesday. The migrants were all being transferred to the island of Lampedusa. Italy has a ...

Manuscript map of Lampedusa (above) and of the island’s ... the renowned Captain William Henry Smyth published The hydrography of Sicily, Malta, and the adjacent islands; surveyed in 1814 ...

More than 700 migrants have been rescued from waters near Sicily in less than 24 hours ... Some 365 drowned in an October 3 capsizing near Lampedusa, an Italian island. The rescue came as European ...

Around 180 migrants who have been stuck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa for four days will be allowed to land in Sicily, Italy's transport minister said Monday. "The Diciotti ...

But the memorial service has drawn heavy criticism over the decision to hold it 200 kilometres away from the island, in Sicily. Lampedusa's mayor Giusi Nicolini did not attend the ceremony in ...

Lying closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, Lampedusa was a stopover once shared by Arab and European navigators. A former colony of the Kingdom of Naples, in 1986 the island narrowly missed oblivion ...

Italian officials say 370 migrants were rescued from three boats in the waters between Libya and Sicily on Tuesday. The migrants were all being transferred to the island of Lampedusa. Italy has a ...