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Photo of the day: spring at the gates

Good morning with the first hints of spring Favignana, here the IRIS Planifolia paths between Favignana, one of endemic species present among the first to bloom, as it is about to burst their lives in the Mediterranean… Photo © Giorgio De Simone Iris planifolia (Miller) Flowers & Paoletti – Giaggiolo bulboso [Iridaceae] Without.: Xiphion planifolia Miller; Iris tools …

Palazzo Florio: the soul of Favignana, design of the great Damiani Almeyda

There was a time when art and architecture had a very important role internationally in Sicily and elsewhere. It is not a time so long ago. That time was the 800 Sicilian, and in this respect the architect and engineer Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda was for Palermo and Sicily a terrific culmination. The projects of the …

Center Turtles Egadi: inaugurated the new premises at the Museum of the Tonnara

Tuesday 5 June 2018, the presence of all the authorities and environmental groups that collaborate to the First Aid Center Management of Marine Turtles of the Egadi, is a new restaurant was opened housing the tanks where turtles are placed in the center present. Soon it will be realized, the same site, a …

In Palermo, all’Arsenale, Studies on the day of the Battle of the Egadi

10 March 241 A.C.. Sicily became a land "Western" After more than twenty years of naval and land battles, the Battle of the Egadi Islands marks the culmination of the first Punic War. Carthaginian is forced to sue for peace and permanently abandon Sicily. And the 10 March 241 A.C., a momentous day for the …

Aliens in the sea: The project involving citizens in identifying alien species in the Mediterranean

Giorgio De Simone The marine biologist Paolo Balistreri explains what is “Aliens in the sea”, a project participated in science and culture that will last for two years and consists of the collection of data on a group of 19 alien species, plant and animal, in Sicilian waters including those of small islands …

Photo of the day: the cliff between the hollow of the Bue Marino

Good afternoon of October from Favignana, of immeasurable beauty glimpses from the Bue Marino Coast. Photos courtesy of © Paolo Balistreri

Conference: From Greening the islands of the circular economy to the islands

Favignana 3-4 November, Florio Energy, water, sustainable mobility, trash, agriculture and tourism beds in a circular economy that key enlarged from islands. These are the themes of the fourth edition of The Greening Islands International Conference to be held in the Favignana 3 e 4 November, at the Florio factory, the old trap of the island. The conference …

Photo of the day: sunset on the Egadi from Marsala

Good evening from Marsala: sunset on the Egadi from the salt marshes of the Lagoon of Marsala, where ferries leave for the island of San Pantaleo or Motya part of the Archipelago of the Egadi Islands Photo © Giorgio De Simone

Photo of the day: Seagull at the Royal scindo Step Favignana

Good morning from Favignana: a beautiful specimen of Herring Gulls Yellowlegs or Mediterranean Royal Gull about to take flight to Punta Lunga, Step into town scindo. Photo © Giorgio De Simone