Though the local cuisine incorporates ingredients and techniques from Sicily and Tunisia, Pantelleria's nearest neighbors, it is as strikingly distinctive as the island's craggy lava-rock landscape.
Eden Rock , arguably the island's premier boutique hotel, recently wrapped up construction on five villas, all beachside overlooking St-Jean Bay, and all for fractional sale--you can "buy" four to five weeks a year for a period of 75 years.