Alicudi is an island in Italy belonging to the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, in Sicily.
Administratively it belongs to Lipari, an Italian town in the province of Messina in Sicily.
The inhabitants of the island are called arcudari in Sicilian.
In ancient times it was known as Ericussa, from the ancient Greek ("rich in heather").
«Alicuri is sterile and alpine everywhere, and has no circuit more than 7 miles. Heather is born in large numbers there (...). " Mariano Scasso,
General History of Sicily, 1788.
The island of Alicudi is the westernmost of the Aeolian archipelago and is located about 34 nautical miles (almost 63 km) west of Lipari.
It is dominated by Mount Filo dell'Arpa, whose toponym derives from the dialectal term harp or harpazza with which the buzzard is indicated. The plan of the island is almost circular, with an area of ??about 5 km², with steep and rugged coasts, and constitutes the emerged part, from the 1,500 m depth of the sea floor up to 675 m a.s.l. of the culminating point, of an extinct volcano, which arose around 150,000 years ago and remodeled by successive eruptions and Quaternary phenomena.
The island is inhabited only on the southern side, sloping down towards the sea in lines (narrow plots), supported by dry stone walls. This side, significantly man-made for residential and cultural purposes, is less steep than the opposite one, beaten by the winds and continuously subject to erosive phenomena and consequent landslides, called sciare (from the plural sciari in Sicilian language).
The Heather Island was inhabited after the war by over 600 people, most of them then emigrated to Australia.
Currently the population has fewer than one hundred residents which, however, decrease significantly in the winter period.
Alicudi was inhabited from the Neolithic, as evidenced by traces found near the current port and on the top of the island.
At the 4th century BC some burials with lava stone slabs found in the Fucile area in 1924 are dated, with funerary equipment of oil lamps and clay vases.
Fragments of Roman pottery are found on the east coast of the island.
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