{"id":9937,"date":"2026-01-20T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:15:08","slug":"the-italian-paradise-island-with-no-roads-no-phone-signal-and-almost-no-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/the-italian-paradise-island-with-no-roads-no-phone-signal-and-almost-no-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian paradise island with no roads, no phone signal \u2014 and almost no tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CTV News<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Palmarola has no town and no roads. There is no electricity, no mobile phone coverage and no ferry terminal. On most days, the only way to reach the island is by small boat from Ponza, five miles away across the Tyrrhenian Sea.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/37CZL2HO35GNPKKYBPI6OXG4W4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9948\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paolo Graziosi\/iStockphoto\/Getty Images via CNN Newsource<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/lifestyle\/article\/the-italian-paradise-island-with-no-roads-no-phone-signal-and-almost-no-tourists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What draws the people who do make the crossing is not infrastructure or convenience, but the absence of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":9948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/37CZL2HO35GNPKKYBPI6OXG4W4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}