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Art a part of cult(ure), a cracking independent magazine founded and run by women that focuses on the Italian and European art and culture scene, has dedicated a lovely feature to the Favignana quarry ecomuseum. “The Underground Cathedral: The Favignana Quarries and Marine Environment Ecomuseum – Egadi Islands archipelago, Sicily. Museums preserve memory and beauty […]

Biodiversity in the Mediterranean sea The natural systems and biogeochemical cycles that biological diversity generates allow for the stable functioning of the atmosphere, oceans, forests, various territories, and water basins. These constitute the prerequisites for the existence of human society and all other species that inhabit our planet. However, biodiversity is currently declining at an […]

The activity of extracting ‘tuff’ involved a large number of ‘pirriaturi’, as the extraction workers were called in the local dialect Some worked in open-cast quarries, while others toiled by the light of acetylene lamps in underground quarries that stretched for hundreds and hundreds of metres into the heart of the earth. While inside the […]