Rose Island

Discover the story of what happened when an Italian engineer decided to build an island off the coast of Italy..and then declare it to be an independent country.

Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/rose-island

Discover the story of what happened when an Italian engineer decided to build an island off the coast of Italy..and then declare it to be an independent country.


Giorgio Rosa - the ambitious engineer
The law about who owns the sea
How he built the island
Declaring Rose Island to be an independent country
The political situation in the 1960s
Why people were worried when he declared independence
The reaction of the Italian government
Declaring The Republic of Minerva in The Pacific Ocean
Libertarianism & declaring new nation-states
What will the countries of the future look like?

Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/rose-island