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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Ventotene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ventotene is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Campania, Italy.
A prison camp was created under Mussolini on the island with up to 700 opponents, including 400 communists, between 1939 and 1943.
One of them was Altiero Spinelli who wrote there a text now known as the Ventotene Manifesto, promoting the idea ao a federal Europe after the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ventotene   (276 words)

  
 Ventotene Island
The Parata Grande Tuff at Ventotene Island (Italy)." by Annamaria Perrotta, Claudio Scarpati, Lisetta Giacomelli and Anna Rita Capozzi on Journ.
Ventotene Island, and the nearby islet of S. Stefano, are located on the western margin of the continental shelf of the coast between Rome and Naples.
The reconstruction of this eruption is important to understand the volcanological and structural evolution of the island because this explosive event may be associated with a caldera collapse.
vulcan.fis.uniroma3.it /ventotene/ventotene.html   (1681 words)

  
 Ponza & Ventotene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The island was transformed into a gilded cage for the female prisoners of the Julius-Claudia dynasty when the Emperor Augustus proclaimed the Lex Julia, under which in the year 2 AD he exiled his wanton daughter Julia, whose second husband, Tiberius, left her because of her immoral behavior.
followed Julia to Ventotene, including Vipsania Agrippina, Tiberius' step-daughter and Germanicus' wife, who was exiled there in 29 AD and left to die of starvation; followed in 62 AD by Ottavia, Nero's sterile twenty year old wife, who was plunged into a hot bath after the veins in her legs had been cut open.
Towards the end of the century, Flavia Domitilla was accused of Judaism by Domitian and sent to the island where she suffered the martyrdom for which she was later venerated as a saint.
www.nsa.naples.navy.mil /gaetamwr/Ponza_Ventotene.htm   (776 words)

  
 Altiero Spinelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following his entry into radical journalism and the rise of Mussolini's Fascist Party, he was arrested in 1927 and spent 10 years in prison and a further 6 in confinement.
During the Second World War he was interned on the island of Ventotene in the Gulf of Gaeta along with some 800 others hostile to Mussolini's regime.
In June 1941 Spinelli and a small group of fellow prisoners completed the Ventotene Manifesto, a document in support of a new European federalist movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altiero_Spinelli   (550 words)

  
 Bulletin de Ressources Phytogénétiques - Collecting of landraces and wild relatives of cultivated plants in Ponziane ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Ventotene compared with Ponza is flatter and for this reason agriculture has been always more important here and very much practised by the local community.
One of the most serious problems of lentil cultivation on Ventotene is the attack by sparrows; until the early 1960s, children were paid for each bird captured.
On Ventotene the tradition of eating spontaneous plants as a vegetable is still very common, e.g.
www.ipgri.cgiar.org /pgrnewsletter/article.asp?lang=fr&id_article=74&ID_ISSUE=131   (3632 words)

  
 Öland, Sweden/Ventotene, Itlay: USM Migratory Bird Group
In spring, many migrant landbirds stopover on Italian islands, including Ventotene, to rest and refuel.
The island is a hilly, volcanic formation with steep cliffs, primarily covered by cultivated or fallow lands with few trees.
(Ventotene) during the springs of 1996 and 1997.
www.usm.edu /mbrg/OlandVentotene.htm   (387 words)

  
 Ventotene Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Parata Grande Tuff at Ventotene Island (Italy)." by Annamaria Perrotta, Claudio Scarpati, Lisetta Giacomelli and Anna Rita Capozzi, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 1996
Bathymetric data indicates that Ventotene is the south-eastern flank of a composite volcano, with a basal area of about 300 km^2, rising more than 700 m from the sea bottom.
The stratovolcano of which Ventotene and S. Stefano represent part of the south-eastern flank, has experienced at least 27 eruptions over the last 0.8 Ma.
boris.vulcanoetna.com /ventotene1.html   (1699 words)

  
 T.I.VOL.I cruise
Ventotene Basin and Pontine Slope - Bathial Plain - Submarine volcanoes - Upper Slope gullies and pockmarks
The Ventotene Basin, contrasting to the rest of the wide area surveyed in Leg 3, seems to be immune to high-energy sea bottom processes.
Otherwise, it has to be thought that due to the structural offset of the basin with respect to NW-SE regional slope, the Ventotene Basin is bypassed by the bottom currents, that seem to be active on the continental slope.
www.cq.rm.cnr.it /tivoliweb/pr3.html   (701 words)

  
 Hotel Calabattaglia Ventotene - Venere.com
Thanks to these characteristics, Ventotene is among the sea and terrestrial parks established in 1998.
Ventotene Island, residue of an ancient volcano, is less than three kilometres long.
Pandataria, as the island was anciently called, was chosen at the end of the First century b.C. by the emperor August as a golden exile for his daughter Giulia, who was confined for her immoral behaviour.
en.venere.com /hotels_ventotene/hotel_calabattaglia.html?ref=3926   (331 words)

  
 The Bruges Group
The prison island of Ventotene became the enforced headquarters of the PCI underground with Communists outnumbering all the other groups.
Ventotene, the "confino" island, is in the Gulf of Gaeta off the Italian coast between Rome and Naples.
Professor Einaudi, whose smuggled works had inspired Spinelli on Ventotene, returned from his Swiss exile and in 1946 and 1947 was a member of the Constituent Assembly.
www.brugesgroup.com /mediacentre/index.live?article=104#stalinist   (6599 words)

  
 ITALIA - Spotlight On ... The Pontine Islands - Latium
This uninhabited island can be reached from Ventotene with a rented boat.
The boat tour around the island is quite brief and offers fascinating views enhanced by the intensely blue-coloured sea and by the dark and ragged basaltic rocks.
Ventotene has generally high and ragged coasts and two small, beautiful beaches just behind the built-up area:
www.italiantourism.com /island4.html   (1023 words)

  
 island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Forty miles northwest of Capri is the island of Ventotene, one of the least overdeveloped and least spoiled islands in the northern Mediterranean.
Greek mariners, who founded Naples (nea polis or new city) probably landed on Ventotene, but the island's many archeological traces -- all of which can be visited -- date from the Roman Republic and Empire.
The clean, clear sea around the island is studded with Roman coins and amphorae, which makes Ventotene a magnet for scuba divers.
www.ventotene.net /island.htm   (128 words)

  
 Travelling
The island of Ventotene has a surface extending for about 153 hectares, and it is of volcanic orgin, like the islet of Santo Stefano nearby.
The small town, of clear Neapolitan print, has white and rose houses; narrow alleys go through it and lead to the Roman port and the beautiful church dedicated to Santa Candida.
Ventotene is officially a Marine Park and a Natural Reserve of the State.
www.wayitalia.net /rooten/viaggio_bacio_854.html   (186 words)

  
 Richard Laming
Some former members of JEF (and some current members of the UEF) plan to organise, on the occasion of this year’s Ventotene seminar (4 to 9 September 2004), some parallel sessions with a more relaxed tone – Ventotene Extra – for all those “veterans” who will be on the island.
Ideal for those who want to relive the Ventotene atmosphere, it will also be a great introduction to the federalist idea for those who want to take things a little slower (if you have some friends you want to bring along).
Of course, you are also welcome to join in any of the sessions of the formal seminar if you wish.
www.geocities.com /richardlaming/ventoteneextra.html   (471 words)

  
 ITALY, ISCHIA: Island of Ventotene, Museum, News, Information, Events, Resources, History, Hotels, Residence, Last ...
SLAND OF The dug roman port in the tufo, the fish farm, the imposing remains archaeological of Julia villa, and the reserviors of Stefania villa testify the importance that already give the antichi times had the island of Ventotene.
Here the concurred in limited measure and single access é for scientific scopes, the sub will have to be accompanies to you from specialistic staff and with appropriate allowed.
One sure what é: not to pick the opportunity of the reservoir, would mean to also lose not only a maturity occasion - fors' also intellectual - but the perspective of "a possible" future.
www.teleradiostella.it /page96en.html   (581 words)

  
 Research
The study area is situated in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea (east sector), in the waters of the islands of Ischia, Procida and Ventotene.
The research focuses in the area corresponding to the submarine canyon of Cuma, a particular habitat characterised by a concentration of pelagic fauna.
Along the coast, the continental slope results to be incised by submarine canyons, of which the deeper one is that of Cuma, N_NW Ischia.
www.delphismdc.org /en/projects/research.htm   (2692 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | UK woman killed in Italian explosion
The explosion in Via Ventotene, a narrow street lined with shops, occurred just minutes after firefighters arrived on Tuesday morning to check reports of a strong smell of gas.
Residents of the multi-storey building in Via Ventotene first reported the smell of gas on Monday night.
A preliminary check turned up nothing, but a further spate of calls prompted police and firefighters, as well as gas company workers, to be dispatched to the building.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/1680459.stm   (395 words)

  
 Traghetti per Ventotene - Prenotare traghetti Traghetti per Ventotene con A Ferry . it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Prenota i Traghetti per Ventotene con A Ferry.
Ventotene è un'isola nel Mar Tirreno, lungo la costa campana.
L'isola di Ventotene dal 1991 è riconosciuta come Area naturale Marina potetta, il mare incontaminato, i fondali profondi e ricchi di fauna offrono meravigliosi scenari per la presenza di innumerevoli specie di pesci.
www.aferry.it /Ventotene-ferry-it.htm   (184 words)

  
 aftermath second world war political consequences resistance european idea manifesto ventotene 1941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Ventotene: The Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies, [s.d.], pp.
They believed more than ever in the need to build a democratic Europe along the lines proposed by the militant anti-fascists and federalists Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi in their Manifesto for a free and united Europe.
Written on Ventotene, a small island belonging to the Ponza Archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea, to which they had been exiled and placed under constant surveillance, the Manifesto was secretly broadcast in the summer of 1941.
www.ena.lu /europe/pioneering/manifesto-ventotene-1941.htm   (1042 words)

  
 Platinum Pro 5000 - Individual Diver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
In 1982 I became a PADI diving instructor, in 1988 an IDC staff instructor, in 1990 an SSI trainer.
In 1977 I opened the diving operation in Ventotene island and in those years (from 1977 to the end of the summer in 1980), I made 300 dives per year.
From 1982 until 1989, I worked in my diving center on Ventotene Island and in other diving operations in Maldives Islands and in the Red Sea.
www.divessi.com /platinumpro/pp5000_individual.cfm?primary=371   (435 words)

  
 Ventotene Ferries - Book a Ventotene Ferry with A Ferry . to   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Catch a Ventotene Ferry to or from the ports of Casamicciola, Napoli or Ponza.
The island of Ventotene is made up of the remains of an ancient volcano.
Ventotene is more suited to those looking for some serious peace and solitude.
www.aferry.to /Ventotene-ferry.htm   (118 words)

  
 Pontine Islands | Italy Heaven
Ventotene is smaller - under three kilometres long - and is more suited to those looking for some serious peace and solitude.
Ventotene and Ponza have several archeological sites; the Emperor Augustus exiled his embarassing daughter Julia to Ventotene (then known as Pandataria); and Nero later did the same with his wife Octavia.
Ventotene can be reached from Formia with Vetor (55mins).
www.italyheaven.co.uk /lazio/pontineislands.html   (768 words)

  
 Island of Santo Stefano, municipality of Ventotene (LT)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
At least of a mile to East of the island of Ventotene, to half road between the archipelago of the Pontine and that of the Flegree, meet the island of Santo Stefano.
With an area of 28.76 hectares and a maximum altitude on the level of the sea of meters 84, it is the smallest of the Pontine islands.
The negotiations could foresee the sale too of the existing buildings (farmers and main houses) and/ or of portion of the island.
www.napoli.com /santostefano   (295 words)

  
 Delicious Italy - The land of Ulisse off the Italian coast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
And who can't resist the islands of Ponza, Ventotene and the resort towns of Sperlonga, Formia and Gaeta.
The island of Ventotene is the visible peak of a volcano which emerged 800,000 years ago and the whole zone is now a land and sea reserve.
If you want to stay in Ventotene bear in mind that only 10% of the hospitality in hotel based.
www.deliciousitaly.com /Laziotour23.htm   (526 words)

  
 Protein loss during long-distance migratory flight in passerine birds: adaptation and constraint -- Schwilch et al. 205 ...
Organs that take up a significantly (P<0.05) smaller proportion of total lean dry mass in Ventotene birds than in Swiss birds are marked with an asterisk (compositional analysis).
Relationship between total lean dry mass and fat content in birds after a long-distance flight (Ventotene sample).
Commune di Ventotene and the Nuova Compagnia delle Indie for
jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/205/5/687   (4762 words)

  
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During the conference held by the Association last June, engineers pointed out that environment decline is also caused by a number of economic and social problems which affect the stability of the areas.
The isle of Ventotene (Pontine Islands) which has set up a protected sea area should soon host a European Center for sea researches.
The isles of Ventotene and Santo Stefano have been selected by the European Community and by some Italian institutions for a number of interventions in favor of environment.
www.mclink.it /com/itnet/euromed/med6/med6_e.htm   (2672 words)

  
 Sailing in Italy from Procida, Naples. Itineraries
Let us start for example with the nearby Ischia, famous for its thermal baths and golden beaches; followed by Capri, with is vibrant social life, located in front of Sorrento and the beautiful coast of Amalfi both rich in history and folklore.
Only 20 miles from Procida you will find Ventotene, which waits for welcome you in its suggestive old port the Romans excavated in the tuff-stone.
In front of Ventotene, there is Santo Stefano, a small island that offers you (apart from the historical interest in its prison built by the Bourbons) the magnificence of its extraordinary depths of rare beauty giving you the charge to explore numerous wrecks.
www.yachtcharterclub.com /saiitin.htm   (316 words)

  
 Getting to Ventotene
Ventotene is a Mediterranean island located 40 kilometres off the Italian coast between Roma and Napoli.
The island is served by daily ferry and hydrofoil (aliscafi) services from the port of Formia.
Information and timetables for the Vetor hydrofoil service from Formia to Ventotene.
homepage.mac.com /innovativ/ventotene/travel/travel.htm   (239 words)

  
 Ventotene & Ponza
There you will have a magnificent view of the Northern rocks, showing "the volcanic" history of Ventotene.
If Ventotene is more "one coloured", the volcanic activity on Ponza has presented us with a variety of rock formation.
You find it shining white, grey, red, brown etc. Here are lots of caves that can be explored by dingey or by sightseingboats.
home.online.no /~pernoll/R5_Ponza.html   (439 words)

  
 The Ventotene Seminar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Every year, the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies organises a seminar on the island of Ventotene.
This island off the Italian coast, was the place where Altiero Spinelli, author of the Federalist Ventotene Manifesto, was imprisoned during the Second World War.
Considering that, in the past years, the participation fee was very often more expensive than the travel reimbursement, starting with this year, the Altiero Spinelli Institute decided to abolish the participation fee.
www.mfe.it /gfe/attivita/seminari/ventoint05.htm   (342 words)

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