GIORGIO ARMANI: "Pantelleria is the gift I have given myself for what I have managed to create with my work"

MASSIMO TROISI: "We chose Pantelleria to shoot Il Postino because the island lends itself to the reconstruction of an unspoiled, 1950s-style landscape... I like Pantelleria. It's a special island, with houses built in a certain way, an original architecture that sets it apart from other places in the Mediterranean, with sheer cliffs overlooking the sea, the shadows, the colours..."

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: "...I don't think there is a more suitable place in the world to imagine the moon. But Pantelleria is more beautiful. The endless plains of volcanic rock, the motionless sea, houses painted with lime up to the steps from whose windows one can see the luminous beams of African lighthouses on windless nights...Sleeping bottoms...An amphora with petrified garlands and the remains of a wine corroded by the years...Bathing in a steaming basin with waters so dense that one can almost walk on them..."

ALDOUS HUXLEY: "....I have never felt more at home than on the island of Pantelleria..."

ISABELLA FERRARI: "..an island that envelops and amazes you, wherever you look. Every glance is a vision, the revelation of what is magical. Think of Ulysses, of his journey, which is that of all of us. I'm sure Homer visited Pantelleria.”

STING: "...In Pantelleria, the words were in the wind, I only had to reach out and catch them..."

HENRY CARTIER - BRESSON: "...Even the most beautiful photo does the island a disservice..."

TRUMAN CAPOTE: "...a chilling beauty..."

LIDIA RAVERA: "...Pantelleria is an island of contrasts, rough and welcoming. When the wind is strong it recalls Cornwall, but it is also Africa. The dry walls, the stones... You feel the contact with the fundamental elements. I was struck by its diversity. You really feel like you're somewhere else, handed over to the force of nature, to the violent caress of a total, nourishing, unique sun. I'm leaving and I already want to come back. I recognise this immediate nostalgia, because it resembles love..."

GIUSEPPE BERTOLUCCI: "...This is the first island in the world that does not cause me anxiety and a desire to escape, but only calm and sensual pleasure..."

BOB NORDA: "...The winding lines of the Dammusi's white roofs. The black and green agricultural terraces. The warmth of its people. Pantelleria, a unique landscape..."

CARLA PERROTTI: "...Returning to Pantelleria was like reliving a dream: emotions and feelings arise spontaneously as in the deserts. But here everything is life, every corner reveals that it is nature that dominates everywhere. This is the real strength of this paradise island..."

GIOSUÈ CALACIURA (Pantelleria L'Ultima Isola): "...Where reality loses its concreteness and imagination acquires it..."