The island group ia part of a protected marine area called Punta Campanella. The present owner is called Giovanni Russo. Gallo Lungo, the easternmost and largest of the Li Galli group, about 5 miles E of Punta Campanella, has a tower on its summit a prominent villa lies.
In 1979 Massine died and Li Galli were bought by Rudolf Nureyev. The terraces on the opposite side of the villa have an unobstructed view of the Amalfi Coast. The belvedere is decorated with a fountain with mosaics and offers a view of the island of Capri. He had a beautiful villa built, which in 1937 was restored by Le Corbusier. In 1924 the island group became the property of the choreographer Leonide Massine. When the beauty of his music surpassed that of the Sirens’, the creatures threw themselves into the sea
The Argonauts got Orpheus to play his lyre. Ulysses had his sailors’ ears stuffed with wax and himself tied to the mast when sailing by. The only two ships to not suffer this fate were the ones of Ulysses and of the Argonauts. Their beautiful songs made sailors lose control of their ships so that they would wreck them against the rocks of the islands. The group of islands is also sometimes known as the Archipelago of the Sirenusas, because it is here that the three mythical Sirens of Homer’s Odyssey, Parthenope, Leucosia and Ligeia, seducers of sailors, used to live. Li Galli consists of three small islands called Gallo Lungo, La Rotonda (“The Round One”) and La Castelluccia. Otherwise, the closest you can come is by taking one of the various boat tours of the Gulf of Naples. Li Galli Islands are currently part of the Marine Protected Area of Punta Campanella, and you can reach them by sea.Since the islands are private property, you can only set foot on them if you are invited by the owner. Shortly after his death in 1993, the archipelago has passed into the hands of other individuals. The property then passed to another famous Russian dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, who acquired it in 1989. During the reign of Charles II of Naples in the late. Alle ore 16.20 circa una squadra dei Vigili del Fuoco di Lecce, unitamente ad un supporto con autobotte, è intervenuta all’altezza dello svincolo Galatina-Collepasso per un incendio che stava interessando un’autobetoniera. On the main island of the archipelago - Gallo Lungo - there was once a monastery, and later - a prison. In her honor is held every year an international award for the art of dancing. Mezzo in fiamme nel pomeriggio di oggi lungo la statale 101. In fact, in 1924, Leonide Massine, Russian choreographer and dancer, bought the islands and built on Gallo Lungo (the largest of the three), a beautiful villa.
The charm of these islands has attracted many actors, painters, poets, and dancers throughout the years indeed. The figure of the castellan was hosted long before the archipelago became an attraction for celebrities, from 1924 onwards. Li Galli host an Angevin tower that, due to the important position, had a peculiarity: the "Li Galli" tower, in fact, had its own castellan. The most immediate matching you can do with these "feathered" sirens, it is with a hen or a rooster (Italian, respectively Gallina and Gallo), hence the name Li Galli still used today. It is said that, the name Li Galli, derives from the Siren's iconography in the ancient Greek figurative art, in which you have to imagine them as half woman and half bird: the "Greek" Sirens, therefore, should not be confused with the half woman and half fish Sirens of the medieval tradition. These are two pieces that identify the Li Galli islands - in the stretch of sea facing Positano - with the three solitary and rocky islands as the seat of the Sirens.įor the Greek mythology, sirens represent danger and distraction, the story goes that many sailors, crossing that stretch of sea, then sank. The most important evidence for the location comes from Strabo, Greek geographer who lived in the first century BC. The archipelago is located a few miles away from Positano. Li Galli, also called Sirenuse, is a small archipelago of three islands: Gallo Lungo, Rotonda and Castelluccio, which was considered abode of the enchantresses Sirens.
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