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Tuna factory of Favignana
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Tuna factory of Favignana
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In the group of islands Egadi island of Favignana, with his establishment for the processing of tuna, boasts one of the most impressive examples of industrial architecture in Sicily. Historical sources report that since the twelfth century acting on a tuna Favignana and up to half of the storage is done exclusively manual salted tuna. This procedure, however, could not guarantee a prolonged period of time. It is October 5, 1841 when Vincenzo Florio takes gabelle the Tonnare of Formica and Favignana from Genovese family Pallavicino Rusconi, then owner of the Egadi archipelago. The plant already boasted four years after its inauguration the capture of more than ten thousand tuna for processing of which were used up to a thousand people. Once caught by tonnaroti under the guidance of Rais (word of Arabic origin from Rais = head), with the secular ritual of the mattanza (from Latin mactare = kill), tuna were brought within the tuna. There were hanged in the woods (set of peaks for hooking and let drain tuna), cut, sventrati, gutted, deprived of eggs that had worked in camparia, boiled, put in brine or immersed in olive oil and finally packaged in typical tins rosso-gialle marked from the lion of Florio who abbevera the bank of a stream. Although it is true that Vincenzo Florio has been recognized by some authors as the architect of the new procedure for conservation of tuna in oil, it must be clear that this activity, at least until the year of 1859 - when he leave the management of tuna because they believed the most profitable, was certainly not yet been implanted in Favignana. The management passes to Julius Drago until 1877, while in 1874 the entire Egadi islands are owned by Ignatius Florio. It is during the administration Drago that the establishment was founded for the conservation of tuna oil, with the construction of its buildings. But under the management of Florio that the plant grows, becoming the largest industry conservation of tuna in Sicily. The activities for the conservation and trade of canned tuna buys industrial importance that requires the use of many people in the establishment. This especially in view of fishing seasons fortunate of those years when there was an average of tuna caught by more than 9,000 units. With this considerable caught by store staff and so we had to be organized necessarily have a substantial industrial plant and so Ignatius Florio decided to proceed enlargement of the complex to adapt to the most advanced stages of processing and preservation: the great buildings built to ogival arches around the inner bay, one of which is significantly improperly but still called malfaraggio, will be added other buildings, among them the two elevations in the middle of the complex, to accommodate some phases of work, in addition to upgrading equipment. Now the factory, after years of deterioration and neglect, is the protagonist of one of the most important and significant restoration projects finanzianti with funds POR Sicily 2000-2006, in order to adapt to cultural, tourist, sporting and craft.
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