A six-year-old girl living beneath one of Europe’s most active volcanoes is set to become the only pupil at Europe’s believed smallest school.
Aysha, who lives in the fishing hamlet of Ginostra on the Italian island of Stromboli, will have an entire classroom to herself when lessons begin on September 10.
The remote settlement, perched on the slopes of the famous volcano off Sicily’s northern coast, is so isolated residents have christened it ‘the island within an island’.
With no roads connecting it to the rest of Stromboli and access only by boat, rough seas frequently leave the community cut off from the
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