Interior of the Tuna Cannery
WISH YOU ALL A MOST BEAUTIFUL WEEK!
The Florio tuna fishery closed down in the 1970s, and the austere buildings of the factory by the sea have become a veritable monument of industrial archaeology testifying to the golden age of tuna fishing in this Sicilian strip of Africa.
Even if from the Middle Ages onwards techniques and tools have remained almost the same, today tunny-fishing scenario has changed its sense, its importance and its protagonists. It was the exploitation of a very rich fish asset that could never end, profit source for whole communities which were proud of working and hand it down to posterity.
Nowadays it has turned into something different that mixes several contrasting ingredients: tourist trade, strong will to make a tradition survive, emergency job for social outcast, temporary first job for young people who have nothing in prospects.
Interior of the Tuna Cannery
WISH YOU ALL A MOST BEAUTIFUL WEEK!
The Florio tuna fishery closed down in the 1970s, and the austere buildings of the factory by the sea have become a veritable monument of industrial archaeology testifying to the golden age of tuna fishing in this Sicilian strip of Africa.
Even if from the Middle Ages onwards techniques and tools have remained almost the same, today tunny-fishing scenario has changed its sense, its importance and its protagonists. It was the exploitation of a very rich fish asset that could never end, profit source for whole communities which were proud of working and hand it down to posterity.
Nowadays it has turned into something different that mixes several contrasting ingredients: tourist trade, strong will to make a tradition survive, emergency job for social outcast, temporary first job for young people who have nothing in prospects.