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| | Lipari, Messina - Sicilia - Italy |
 | | Lipari (Roman Lipara, ancient Greek Meligunis) with its 37.6 square km is the biggest of the seven Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Salina, Panarea, Alicudi, Filicudi, Vulcano, Stromboli) in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 24 nautical miles off the north coast of Sicily, and also the island's main town. |
 | | Besides the main town, most of the year-round population resides in one of the four main villages: Pianoconte, west across the island, Quattropani in the northwest, Acquacalda along the northern coast, and Canneto on the eastern shore north of the main town, Lipari, which is located on an inlet along the southern coast. |
 | | In Neolithic times Lipari was, with Sardinia, one of the few centers of the commerce of obsidian, a hard fl volcanic glass prized by Neolithic peoples. |
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