Mize Clan Italy 2006

Isola Ustica 38 43N 13 11E

The island has been populated since about 1500 BC by Phoenician peoples. In ancient Greece, the Island was named Osteodes (ossuary) in memory of the thousands of Carthaginian mutineers left there to die of hunger in the 4th century BC. The Romans renamed the island Ustica, Latin for burnt, for its black rocks. In the 6th century, a Benedictine community settled in the island, but was soon forced to move because of ongoing wars between Europeans and Arabs. Attempts to colonize the island in the Middle Ages failed because of raids by Barbary pirates. Until the 1950s, Ustica was used as an island prison, though it is now a tourist attraction





http://www.ustica.org/vacanza/colombaro.htm