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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).

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.

Castelvetrano, in the Sicilian province of Trapani, is known to most in its territory because there is the beautiful archaeological park of Selinunte, the largest archaeological park in Europe, where they still see the remains several temples (including well-preserved of Era ), Arranged around all’acropoli, the lifeblood of Greek cities in antiquity. Selinunte, built around the seventh century BC by Greek colonists was destroyed once by the Carthaginians and a second time and adopted by the Romans around the mid-third century BC, after they had won the first Punic War.

A Castelvetrano Sunday, May 18 will take place on Historical Santa Rita and nobility castelvetranese, giuntò now the 6th edition, where listed, crossing in the parade in their costumes vintage, the streets and squares of the city, represent the life of Santa through the composition of 7 different historical paintings.

This year onwards, each framework, put on stage in 7 different squares of the city (Stepped Station, Nino Bixio, Queen Margherita, Charles of Aragon, Giacomo Matteotti, Archimedes, Diodorus Siculus), set up with games of light, drapes and flowers, will be shown (told) a cuntastori that:

costume fifteenth, which rhymes in the Sicilian dialect, tells each framework with specific references to the life of St.

The official site of the Parade of Santa Rita.

The archaeological park of Selinunte.

The photograph was charged by Alec on the Commons and resumed the Cathedral Church of Castelvetrano.