In 2006, the primary school on the island of Stromboli was closed due to a lack of students; in 2026, it opened for just one student whose family would otherwise have to break up their lives

A six-year-old girl living beneath one of Europe’s most active volcanoes recently became the only pupil at a school that the Italian media is calling the smallest in Europe and where the bell hadn’t rung for the past 20 years.…








