"Panarea is the smallest of the seven major islands in the Aeolian archipelago, and it can be considered some kind of the "St-Tropez of Southern Italy" for having attracted since a few decades the VIPs not only of Italy but of all the world. Many of Italy's richest persons possess holiday homes on the island, which lives a relatively brief but intense (compared to its neighbor islands) tourist season, mainly concentrated during the month of August..." (Italy's volcanoes)