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VILLAGES OF THE SEA AND TREASURES OF THE ABYSS

Etna and Mediterranean sea, a fascinating combination with Lampedusa destination

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Friday, 08 May 2009 10:44

Near the sea gets up Etna, "column of the sky" for the mythical Pindar, one of the last paradises of nature. Protagonists, the cobalt blue waters and a burnished earth lava for a 'unicum' almost indescribable. The volcano seen from the sea and sailing boats tell us the berths of a magnificent east coast of Sicily. The generosity of Mother Nature, here, supports many initiatives aimed primarily at tourism, cultural and environmental enhancement of terrestrial and marine assets. At the forefront, the campaign "Cetacean Research and Conservation in The Mediterranean Sea", now in its fifth edition this year.

“That branch of lake of…” Bolsena

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Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:13

Three hundred thousand years old history, on its banks have developed and have become extinct populations, from the age of the iron on. In its waters have been hidden for centuries, pieces of life of the villages, legendary treasures of sovereigns, structures millenarians brought to light by the good will of those who are abducted from the past and its mysteries. It is the lake of Bolsena, the largest of Lazio that has many stories to tell.

The little Venice or the big Chioggia…

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Saturday, 25 April 2009 19:13

If stopping in Chioggia, with a guide in the hand, you exclaim: "How beautiful it seems a little Venice," and maybe a inhabitant of chioggia hear your words, with his typical emphasis from elongated vowels, would state immediately: "ma varda che xè Venessia la grande Ciòsa"! (but it is Venice the great Chioggia).
Reading the story, in fact, came first this seaside village of Venice. It should then change the contents of those tour guides who describe it as a miniature Venice.

The whole medieval escaped the earthquake

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Domenica, 19 April 2009 20:33

"I thought it would not hold the shock but last Saturday (April 11 ndr) I dipped and it was still standing." So tells his amazement, in front of the whole medieval submerged in the lake of Capo d'Acqua, Dante Cetrioli, president of Atlantis Divers School of L'Aquila, he survived the terrible earthquake that struck the Abruzzo. The earthquake has left its traces in three points, but fortunately not very relevant to the structure as a whole.

The lake, private property and exclusive management of the sport association, is in Capestrano, in the heart of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, immersed in a uncontaminated that has archaeological interest for more. An example is the famous "Warrior" of Capestrano, stone sculpture of the sixth century bC, discovered in the necropolis of the ancient city of Ofena.

The Ship of wine

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Thursday, 02 April 2009 20:02

One of the biggest wrecks of the Roman era now known throughout the Mediterranean area, is the ancient ship Oneraria of Albenga. We are in the Gulf of the Ligurian Riviera di Ponente, in front of the most charming old town and best preserved of all the coast, still surrounded by walls, baths and ancient necropolis, in which rising towers, palaces and other fine medieval architecture. But the thing that most of all did we know Albenga is the discovery, at the end of the forties, of the largest cargo ship that has ever found in those waters.

We are in the postwar period and in the nets of the fishermen, who live daily of the sea, coincidentally get entangle remains of amphorae. They are not worthless junk, but fragments of those 728 containers of wine, subsequently discovered almost intact, dated first century BC, coming from Campania and directed towards Gaul.

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