This little island has a history
dating back to the ancient Greeks
(for whom it was “Pandoteira”,
literally meaning “bestower of
everything”): it’s the island of
Ulysses’ sirens, of the exile of
Giulia, daughter of the emperor
Augustus, of the Bourbon prison
of Santo Stefano, located on a
small island offshore. Since
ancient times designated as a
place of confinement, it hosted
some of the most important
names of the anti-fascist
movement, and it’s where the
Manifesto of European
Federalism, by Altiero Spinelli,
was born.