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The Aeolian Islands ( Italian ''Isole Eolie'') are a Volcanic Archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily . They are a popular tourist destination in the summer, and attract up to 200,000 visitors annually. The largest island is Lipari , and tourism marketing often names the entire archipelago the Lipari Islands because of the ease of pronouncing Lipari compared to Aeolian. The other islands include Vulcano , Salina , Stromboli , Filicudi , Alicudi , and Panarea . The town of Lipari has about 11,000 inhabitants. Vulcano is famous for its Fango baths. HISTORY The , grandson of Japheth , son of Javan . In 1544 , when Spain declared war on France , the French king Francois I , asked the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman for help. The latter sent a fleet headed by Khair Ad Din (also known as Barbarossa) who was victorious over the Spaniards, and managed to retake Naples from them. In the course of the battle the Aeolian Islands were depopulated. Later immigrants from mainland Italy, Sicily and Spain re-established communities on the archipelago. INSIDE (AND NEXT OUTSIDE?) THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES The Aeolian Islands have been listed by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites although inaccuracy, the missing closure of a Pumice quarry and the oncoming building of some four harbours by the shore of the sole town of Lipari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEznpP5nFog, that would seriously affect the natural and historical meaning of the main isle and subsequently the whole archipelaga - not to talk of the social and economical impact it would carry by- seriously threaten the Islands to be outlisted as late as June 2008, according to the Italian Unesco Commission http://www.eddyburg.it/article/articleview/9588/0/152/ . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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