this is an island called "lampedusa" located in southern italy, isn't it fantastic?

Lampedusa was a stopping place for Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs, who even had a stable colony on the island, with a governor. The Romans exploited Lampedusa to set up a fish processing plant and for the production of garum, a fish sauce very common in the imperial age. The Arabs are the ones who left more footprints on this island because they used it as a landing place during their pirate raids, even long after the official expulsion from Sicily.

Subsequently, for a long time, the island was quietly waiting for new inhabitants. In 1630 Giulio Tomasi, ancestor of the author of Il Gattopardo, was awarded the noble title of Prince of Lampedusa and Linosa by the King of Spain. In 1760 it was colonized by six Frenchmen followed, after sixteen years, by a Maltese family. Later it was a succession of small groups of farmers led now by Maltese now by English. Even the Russians, with Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, attempted to purchase the island in order to establish a colony of subjects of the Tsarina.