For a different type of island getaway, head to Italy, where you can relax on black sand beaches and watch an active volcano light up the night sky.

Just a boat ride from Sicily, the island of Salina offers an authentic, laid-back Italian getaway with volcanic cliffs, lush ...

Soar over the stunning Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago off the coast of Sicily, Italy, with breathtaking drone footage capturing the rugged coastlines, crystal-clear waters, and smoking ...

ITALY: Saratoga residents Dave and Linda Scott recently explored the Aeolian Islands, an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, aboard the Sea Cloud, a 1931 yacht owned by Marjorie ...

Locals call them the "shape-shifting" or "floating" islands. That's because the Aeolian archipelago has been sculpted and destroyed by volcanic activity over the millennia. Named after the ...

Enter: the Aeolian islands. Off the north east coast of Sicily, the group is made up of Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Stromboli, Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea, alongside a set of minor islands and rocks.

Scattered across the Tyrrhenian Sea to the northeast of Sicily, the Aeolian Islands were home to fishermen and farmers who were still living in "19th century" conditions when Italy's neo-realist ...

While Italy’s more famous destinations like Rome, Florence, and the Amalfi Coast are undoubtedly impressive, the Aeolian Islands offer something uniquely special.

In Italy’s Sicily, many things are different. Even fire and water. In other places the two elements stand in irreconcilable contradiction to each other. But on the Aeolian Islands off Sicily’s ...