Category: Culture

Art and environment: installation PLASTIC arrives Marettimo

Plastic moves in the wildest of Egadi: Marettimo. The art installation designed by Pablo DILET promoted and protected marine area "Egadi Islands" and the Municipality of Favignana tomorrow will be visible along the waterfront pier Marettimo. After the success in Favignana, indeed, the artwork continues the tour of the islands and brings with it a warning …

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The battle of the Egadi: 241 A.C.. Chronicle of a naval battle that will remain in history

Rome and Carthage: the battle of the Egadi from the history books to research on the seabed The battle of the Egadi And 'the 10 March 241 A.C., a momentous day for Sicily, the time when Sicily became a land "Western" where stands already austere physiognomy of Rome. The battle is one of the Egadi …

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Palermo: presented the 12th rostrum of the battle of the Egadi

Presented in a press conference the rostrum in bronze of the battle fought in Egadi 241 A.C.. between the Romans and Carthaginians. E 'was presented during a press conference at the Roosevelt Institute – Superintendent of the Sea, in Palermo, the recovery of the rostrum bronze. The discovery, in waters northwest of the island of Levanzo, in the stretch of …

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Gold Egadi: the oceanic Posidonia

Posidonia seabed

The Egadi Islands are the largest of Posidonia oceanic and extensive Mediterranean. As stated in the Marine Protected Area site Aegadian, “it is an area with very high valence from a naturalistic point of view: the AMP includes the prairie of Posidonia oceanica largest and best preserved of the Mediterranean (circa 7.700 ha). Posidonia, …

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Le tonnare in Sicilia

Tonnara Florio Favignana Museum

The Mediterranean tuna first recall an image, which it is the symbol and common place in a bloody fishing time and curiosity folk. This trap is almost always Sicilian. complex task, a vital time for some coastal districts, by fairly deep historical territorial implications, It is thus reduced to its final moment, the slaughter, and more or …

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