Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
Isola di Pianosa is the fifth largest island in Italy’s Tuscan archipelago and one of the prison island swims.
The site of a maximum-security prison from 1858 to 1998, it is now part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park and a marine protected area.
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