It is worth a visit, for this is not only redolent of old Sicily but closely connected with the feudal lords of the town, the Tomasi di Lampedusa. In the convent church, beneath the tomb of a ...

Lying closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, Lampedusa was a stopover once shared by Arab and European navigators. A former colony of the Kingdom of Naples, in 1986 the island narrowly missed oblivion ...

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise ... with migrants taken north to Sicily, then to the Italian mainland and from there allowed to roam through Europe and settle ...

That coincides with media reports from the time about an influx of migrants on the island, which sits in the Mediterranean between Tunisia and the larger Italian island of Sicily. Lampedusa’s ...

Migrants who land on Lampedusa now are swiftly taken by Italian authorities to larger reception centers in Sicily or Italy's mainland. But Sferlazzo and Lucia fear that the government wants to ...

The migrants arriving now outnumber the entire population of Lampedusa. LONDON -- Tensions are rising quickly in Lampedusa -- a small Italian island located off the coast of Sicily -- after local ...

Lampedusa, not far from Sicily and the closest Italian island to Africa, is a major destination for migrants seeking to enter European Union countries. Charities rescued many of the boats.

Lampedusa, which has a population of just over 6,000, sits in the Mediterranean near Tunisia, Malta and Sicily and is the first port of call for many migrants seeking to reach the European Union.

Italy's far-right government has adopted a policy that forces rescue ships to dock at ports further away, rather than letting them disembark rescued migrants in Lampedusa or Sicily. It says the ...