IA5/IQ5LV PIANOSA EU-028 IIA 016

IA5/IQ5LV PIANOSA ISLAND
IOTA EU-028 LH ITA-001 MIA MI-074 IFF-005 IIA LI-016 WLOTA 0968 WAIS DJ21 DCI LI-085 Forte Teglia

Protected by the prisons for long 142 years, first was a penal settlement, then high security prison up to nowdays. The island is flat but also a unique resource: meadows of Poseidonia, a real "nursery" of the ichthyic fauna of the high Tyrrhenian sea , the most important catacombs to the north of Rome, the roman villa of Agrippa, the sanatorium of Punta Marchese where also the italian President Sandro Pertini was banished, a rich fauna and flora with many rarities due also to the isolated evolution and to an extraordinary migratory flow. The prison moreover, with its potentials, is a modern monument of the history of our land which goes from the robbers of the Maremma to the Austrian prisoners and includes the years of the terrorism and the slaughters of the Mafia. The wall which splits the island , was built in the 1978 and it is

an historic proof too. Unfortunately in the restricted area of the island there are several bays and the most beautiful cliffs of the all Tuscan archipelago. Pianosa is the only tuscan island composed of sedimentary rocks. Thanks to its calcareous nature and to its level ground it has been cultivated since the ancient times. It belonged to the Romans and Augustus banished there his nephew Postumio Marco Giulio Agrippa who was killed . In the cave of S. Giovanni you can see still today the ruins of Agrippa's villa . All the island gives hospitality to the goal and therefore it is a closed place where you can get ashore only with the permission of the Ministry of the Interior or

for well grounded reasons due to the navigations as damage to ship or rough sea. Its population is only made of convicts and guards.The island in spite of its rough and rugged coastline changes gradually its landscape into a quite and flat ground: cactus, olive-trees, agave, mild climate, corn and barleyfields. The depths of Pianosa are shallow and deepen gently , the bathymetry of minus 50 is reached on average at about 1500mt from the coast.
The island is included in the National Park of the Tuscan archipelago . Navigation and fishing are not allowed within the radius of 1 mile far away. The admission is referred to a permission issued directly by the direction of the Park.