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(Picture by Carlo Marcone) Recent picture of the building, showing that the banner Chiesa Cristiana Evangelica (Christian Evangelic Church) has been removed, while the signpost indicating 'work in progress' is still there. There is a project to…

Entrance to Former Dormitory Building (Ponza),named 'Cameroni dei Confinati' (Exiles' Dorm Rooms), after the anti-fascist individuals that were sent to confinement on the island between 1928 and 1943. The Dormitory Building was used to host Libyan…

The building was used as a hospital site for Libyan deportees.Ponza was mainly used as a quarantine site to contain the spread of diseases among Libyan deportees in the other islands.Upon a period of health monitoring, deportees would be sent to…

The yellow building was among the buildings used as a dormitory for Libyan deportees.

The graffiti (2022) represents the Madonna of the Rosary with tunas,pierced by a dugger. The wall surrounds the Caste of San Giacomo, which was originally built between the XI and the XII century, to then be converted into penal colony by the…

The main cameroni on the island of San Nicola were used to detain Libyan deportees between 1911 and 1912. Between 1927 and 1943, the island of San Nicola was also used by the Fascist regime as a police exile site for hundreds of political opponents…

The building at the centre, now a restaurant, was a camerone (dorm room) used to detain Libyan deportees (among other prisoners)

A defensive fortress built in the Bourbonic period, that was used to detain Libyan deportees between 1911 and 1912

Between 1911 and 1912, Libyan deportees were mainly held on the island of San Nicola, while the neighbouring island of San Domenico was used as a quarantine site.