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The small Filicudi (only 9.5 sq km of extension), one of the Aeolian islands, contains in its bottom a small archaeological treasure: nine wrecks of Greek and Roman ships that were in dry abissate Cape Graziano, 75 meters deep. Up to now, access to the submarine but was banned in August from the first dive with patent second level will fall up to 45 metres accompanied by diving allowed. Clearly the leadership that will be provided will not be a simple sheet of paper (unusable at the bottom of the sea…) but a more practical support covered with PVC.

The itinerary, thanks to a marker that helps not to lose orientation, offers the chance to admire the wreck A, a vessel of Hellenistic dated in the third and second century BC, and to identify the silhouette of the wreck “G” covered with sand and dating from the fifth century BC and the City of Milan, a laying of the Navy sank in 1919. At the bottom are also visible wings of hydrofoils who impattato on dry, as well as numerous amphorae, pottery and equipment.

For now, then only the most experienced can visit the museum submarine but hopefully short, the cameras will be positioned to enable the vision of the wreckage of Cape Graziano via the Internet, as it was already done in Cala Gadir, the island of Pantelleria (see photo page webcam).

L ‘UNESCO could soon enter Machu Picchu in the list of sites at risk, because in the last ten years the number of visitors who annually visit the Inca city in Peru, has increased to 800,000. This increase in visits was also due to the fact that the most famous tourist destination Peruvian was included last year between the seven wonders of the modern world.

The growing number of tourist facilities in the nearby town of Agues Calientes could soon undermine the protection of the site. The officials of UNESCO, meeting in Quebec City, Canada, in these days will discuss the meeting of world heritage, if put Manchu Picchu on the list of sites at risk.

For now, is only a proposal that leads But the signing of who is running the policy of cultural property in Sicily and will end soon on the table of the junta Lombardo.

To make possible more profitable management of cultural property in Sicily we have entrusted to a private quality package complete with a tourist site for thirty years. I think for example to the Valley of Temples or reek theater of Syracuse. In exchange for the management of our artistic heritage - says Antinomy’s  individuals will guarantee a fixed fee and some works to be carried out nell’indotto. I think the roads or a certain number of hotels. In the case of the Valley of the temples could ask individuals to improve the highway Palermo-Agrigento and a heliport.

The proposals dell’assessore regional Antinomy not stop here, could be included in the proposal also the ancient theater of Taormina, Selinunte or the Palatine Chapel, but the complete list should be agreed with the Department regional tourism.

This is a proposal that is opening up many controversies, the Valley of the Temples is visited annually by 700 thousand tourists and considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, but indicated for years as a symbol of aggression cement to the beauties of monumental Country. But privatization is the solution to the difficulties of ownership? Tell us yours.

Responsible Tourism. Tourism not to forget. Tourism to hope. These are in short lines that guide those who want to know Sicily through ALI Cooperative Environment Legality and culture that among its activities also those of tourist agency for the area of Palermo, but not alone.

Among the proposed routes are those that lead the visitor to the many meetings with local realities clean and honest. But even the knowledge of memory, for example, through with the meeting of the elderly Portella della Ginestra, witnesses to the massacre of 1 May’47, or to visit Piana degli Albanesi, (where, among other things you can eat a the Sicilian cannoli better) as an example of coexistence between cultures his meeting with the Maghreb community of Mazara del Vallo visiting the House of Memory in Cinisi, where mother Felicia, the mother of Peppino Impastato, welcoming visitors, the meeting with cooperatives and associations working on goods confiscated to mafia.

In traditional tour of the Yucatan peninsula, the state of Campeche is, if goes well, flown over by plane or crossing by bus to reach the Chiapas or Guatemala. This region offers unexpected beauty, starting from the capital of the state.

Campeche is a sonnacchiosa as beautiful colonial town, protected by UNESCO, where you can admire, among other things, the archaeological museum housed in the Fort San Miguel. This small building exhibits treasures found in Maya sites in the area, one of the most important and unexplored in the country. The large collection of jade masks and video installations and explain the attractiveness tourists to visit Calakmul, the capital call in the Mayan language “snake head”.

Calakmul is a magical place, within a nature reserve, over 70 square meters of buildings swallowed up by jungle and the visit is often accompanied by flocks of urlatrici monkeys and other animal species, we recommend that you go at dawn for fans of Bird watching.

And the show that he enjoys from over 45 meters of the Great Pyramid is impressive, forest as the eye can see interrupted only from the tip of other pyramids that interrupt the majesty of this “green sea”. The excavations are still underway and the findings impressive: a tunnel 20 meters long decorated with a bas color in a pyramid that dates from 450 cristo forward for the time being the oldest in the area.