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The Ponza region's patron saint, Saint Silverius, is honored in this modest chapel perched on a sea stack.
The island of Palmarola is the second-largest island in the Pontine archipelago and is mostly uninhabited during the year. The French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau described it, “as the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea”. In the past, the islanders of Ponza would farm Palmarola and seek shelter from corsairs in their cave dwellings, which were built into the volcanic rock above the only accessible bay.
