Basiluzzo

Basiluzzo ( siz. Vasiluzzu ) is the name of the largest uninhabited rocky island of the Aeolian Islands. She rises together with the small Scoglio Spinazzola about 3.5 kilometers northeast of Panarea from the Tyrrhenian Sea to around 165 m slm The less than a square kilometer covering island is surrounded by steep cliffs, inside there is an area that slopes to the east. The island has the shape of a large dome and consists of rhyolite, they formed some 54,000 years ago from the remains of several lava flows, making it the youngest volcanic formation of the archipelago. The terraced similar to rising surface inside is created later by erosion. At the bottom of the sea southeast of the island, there are still leaking gases from the earth's interior.

To the east of the island are the remains of an investor from the Roman period, which is still used today. A few meters below the water surface can be further remains of a Roman port facility ertauchen. An ancient stone path leads from this investor to the highest point of the island, from where you can on an iron crucifix has a panoramic view of all the Aeolian Islands. The numerous remains of ancient buildings, including floor mosaics and wall remnants (opus reticulatum ) suggest, in the villa of a wealthy owner of the Imperial period. With another settlement is not known, remains of barley fields, however, point out that the island was farmed during the past centuries, originally inhabitants of Stromboli, then the closer Panarea. In addition to evidence of human use of caves located on the island still remains a house and a threshing floor and two cisterns were observed at the end of the 19th century.

Basiluzzo is part of the Nature Reserve Riserva Naturale Isola di Panarea e scogli viciniori. The vegetation is dominated by rosemary bushes, solstices, thistles, milkweed plants, mugwort, capers and mastic.