The sea, salt and culture
Water cradles and nourishes our culture, and is a source of inspiration for the tales of the sea territories.
Zones Portuaires
An interdisciplinary festival dedicated to reconnecting port and city
Zones Portuaires is an interdisciplinary project dedicated to port cities, promoting the encounter between city and port in order to strengthen their bond.
Born in Marseille in 2008, since 2015 Zones Portuaires has also landed in Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic, and in Genoa. Here, over the years, the festival has evolved into a wide-ranging and ongoing project, configuring itself as a device that activates collaborative research paths between art and science, through an approach that involves port communities in all phases of co-design.
Over the years, Zones Portuaires in Genoa has become an international festival dedicated to research between port and city. It puts citizens in contact with the port community, a part of the city that has gradually become separate, an ‘operating machine’ that no longer belongs to the territory.
Mar Miniera Argentiera
A former mining village houses a cultural centre
In 2011, LandWorks was founded, a Sardinian association whose aim is to develop artistic production projects in abandoned sites. Landworks chose Argentiera as its base of operations, a former mining village now partly abandoned.
Located in the municipality of Sassari, Mar - Miniera ARgentiera today aims to revitalise the village. Characterised by geographical and social marginality, Mar intends to promote the urban, social and environmental redevelopment of the old industrial complex.
Mar - Miniera Argentiera also proposes the ‘Fronte Mare’ project, a space intended for sociality, play and cultural and sports events. Fronte Mare represents an area of over 500 square metres redeveloped and returned to the community thanks to a participatory urban regeneration project.
Siponto's Basilica
Edoardo Tresoldi restores an early Christian basilica to the coast of Siponto
Edoardo Tresoldi's work realised in the Archaeological Park of Siponto re-proposes the appearance of the ancient early Christian basilica built next to the existing Romanesque church, built 600 years later. The transparent sculpture, facing the sea, made of wire mesh is configured as a contemporary artefact perfectly integrated in the context and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between ancient and contemporary.
Giardini Naxos
At the foot of Taormina lies the first Greek colony in Sicily
The first Greek colony in Sicily, it has a large archaeological area with its own museum. Few landscapes sum up the typical beauty of Sicily like Giardini Naxos, the cradle of ancient Mediterranean civilisations and a leading tourist resort in southern Italy.
Italy's first Hellenic city lives in a continuous osmosis between past and present, starting with the archaeological park, located in the heart of Giardini Naxos. The citizens live in a constant dialogue with the history of the place, nestled between the waters of the sea, the Alcantara river and Mount Etna.
Stair of the Turks
A white cliff jutting out into the sea at Agrigento
A white cliff jutting out into the sea, in the province of Agrigento. The Stair of the Turks is a natural staircase carved by wind and rain, which owes its name to the past piracy raids of the Saracens, known as ‘Turks’.
Salgemma Lungro Festival
A festival that puts the lights back on a salt mine, closed for 45 years
The Salgemma Lungro Festival emphasises the uniqueness of the Calabrian territory identified in the presence of the Lungro salt mine. The Festival has rekindled social, economic and political debate on the Lungro Salt Mine, 45 years after its closure in 1978.
In the small municipality of Lungro, with 2000 inhabitants, nestled in the Pollino National Park, the Salgemma Lungro Festival takes place. The former Salgemma mine with its millenary history, a place that has brought great wealth to the whole of Calabria, is back in the spotlight thanks to the programme of events.
The Salgemma Lungro Festival aims to celebrate the richness of the Calabrian territory, unique for its ancient customs and ancient ‘salt route’.
Jonian Dolphin Conservation
A scientific research association set up to study the cetaceans of the Gulf of Taranto
The Jonian Dolphin Conservation is a research centre founded in Taranto whose aim is to protect the cetaceans that inhabit the Ionian Sea. Thanks to the collaboration of biologists, nature guides and experienced seafarers, JDC also makes possible the experience of sailing the Gulf of Taranto to spot cetaceans.
The Jonian Dolphin Conservation is a scientific association working on the conservation and protection of the marine environment. The project employs a citizen-science method: anyone can join and participate in research activities, either at sea or at the Ketos centre.
71% of our planet is covered with water. Almost 80% of the oxygen we breathe every day comes from the sea. The sea is the essence of our life: our health comes from the sea.
The Monterosso giant
An imposing statue of Neptune guarding the Ligurian Sea
The town of Monterosso has a sculpture dedicated to Neptune. The statue, which once adorned Villa Pastine, was bombed during the Second World War. Today, it has no arms and no trident, but at 14 metres high and 1700 quintals, it still enjoys its grandeur and continues to guard the Ligurian sea.
The Arethusa spring in Siracusa
A freshwater spring in the heart of the island of Ortigia
On the island of Ortigia, in the oldest part of Syracuse, there is a place where reality and legend meet. The Arethusa Spring enjoys fresh water that gushes out at the seashore, forming a small lake inhabited by fish and plant species. A unique place that has inspired poets and writers such as Ovid, Virgil, D'Annunzio, John Milton and Alexander Pope.
Basilica di Santa Maria de Finibus Terrae
The Basilica that marked the boundaries of the earth for the Romans
The first church was built at the dawn of Christianity on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to the Goddess Minerva. The current building is the sixth and was erected in 1700, the interior is in the shape of a Latin cross with Baroque decorations. The Basilica of Santa Maria de Finibus Terrae owes its name to its geographical location: the Romans considered this area the last inhabited by Roman ‘Cives’ (citizens), as opposed to the area beyond the sea where the ‘Provinciales’ (colonists) lived.
Sfera grande di Arnoldo Pomodoro
The Bronze Sphere on the Pesaro seafront
The imposing Sfera is a bronze cast made in 1998 by sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro on the polyester model that arrived in Pesaro in 1971. The original work, completed in 1967 for the Universal Exhibition in Montreal, now stands in Rome in front of the main entrance to the Farnesina, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry. As in Rome, in Pesaro it lies on the surface of the water of a fountain.
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