An ancient factory

The Tonnara of Porto Palmas, Sardinia.

 

A tonnara in Italian means both the tuna fish factory where the fish were processed and canned and the net trap set into thes ea to capture the passing tuna fishes.

 

This tonnara was built in 1500 and was operative untill the fifties of the last century. Most of the buildings survived and were transformed into holidays homes.

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