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Tuna factory of Capo Passero
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Tuna factory of Capo Passero
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Owned currently Knight Peter Bruno of Belmonte, the Tonnara Cape Passero is a splendid monument to industrial archeology. Continuation of the head terminating the gulf, located nell'estrema tip south eastern Sicily, it was certainly the Tonnara return of the more prosperous eastern Sicily. Dating from the Middle Ages was given rent by the owner, Baron Camemi Palermo, Nicolaci in the eighteenth century. In 1750 Don Ottavio Nicolaci ordė attempts, managed to obtain the grant perpetual big advantages based on previous years derived from abundant pescagioni. Off throughout the nineteenth century and riarmata only at the end of the century by Don Peter Bruno of Belmonte, has been dropped on a regular basis until 1969 and every five years until 2000. The Tonnara di Portopalo was the last activity of tuna in eastern Sicily and was equipped with a large and complex malfaraggio. Other malfaraggi are on the same name and retain some palischermi oak long 20 meters. The period of activity of tuna ranged from May to October. Next June the fishing began: the most experienced sailors in the fall of networks and catch fish (Rais, raisotti and tonnaroti) began their activities, while the rest of the workers (unloading and transport sventratori) engaged in the work on land, the expected return of the fearless. Yet you can appreciate between the ruins of the warehouse facilities for the custody and tecnico-logistica of the fishing and manufactured for the processing and conservation of tuna organized around the area of the loggia, the heart of tuna. In particular were the stock of sorra, the product of more refined series of tonnine, the stock of barrels "named Santa Lucia" and the stock of coarse salt. Subsequently, the production of industrialized impose end of the construction of a genuine establishment, with slaughterhouses, dryers and the boiler room, which could allow the use of at least sixty workers for working in oil. The premises were then connected by a walkway masonry to balata, constructed height of the sea level so as to allow the docking of barges loaded with tuna. Venues for housing functions were assigned according to the hierarchical criteria that governed life in Tonnara: money Rais, the House of calafati, the houses of sailors, master terrazzani of campiere arcaded and guardian. In the early twentieth century buildings were renovated and were also made new works in the favor of the industrial production. In Tonnara Cape Passero is also a seventeenth century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation, surmounted by a cross of the order of Malta A. The last owner belonged.
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