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Tuna factory of Bordonaro
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Tuna factory of Bordonaro
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Ur documents not knowing about, it is easy to assume that the foundation of tuna is a few years later to the village dell'Arenella mentioned in a document dated 1320, to recognize a certain John Calvello, an owner at the time. Charles Francis D'Amico, a great scholar of tuna and tuna century, which indicates a document oldest Real concession, issued on behalf of King Alfonso in the years 1455-1456. The presence of the tower makes the site come to be part of the circuit defensive Sicilian coast, and that's why at the end of 1500 it became the subject of study. The name comes from a story handed down by oral tradition, according to which a picture of the Virgin was found at sea in a small cave on the coast near the fortress of Rolls said. The evolution of the coast was substantially different from the present. This was a very irregular pattern characterized by the presence of clusters rocky. The current beach is formed only around 1950, when the area became a dump of building materials that are piled so as to form the current rock placed on the northern margin, interrupting the visual contact that Torre had with Tower Roll . A slow and inexorable process of neglect, which began in mid century, degenerated in the early twentieth abandoned by the family Bordonaro. The tuna was used as a school by the youths of the village and then become, in the pre-war period, a defensive position. The coverage of the Tower was built in 1935 a concrete platform on which was placed a gun, and in the basement appeared numerous loopholes. In the postwar tuna was purchased by the family Caputo La Vecchia, who preservň the appearance and organization of historic factory with small interventions extraordinary maintenance. The past three decades have been Tonnara for a period of complete abandonment and disastrous events. In 1986, following a violent sea collapsed part of the vault of marfaraggio inside which are still visible of the large boats used for mattanze. Subsequently, on the circumstances and little known, collapsed outside staircase, consists of two ramps and placed on the northwest side, and then collapsed and residential part of the body. From a couple of years began with a private initiative, a process of recovery that is turning into a space with an area theater for music and cinema overlooking the sea, restaurants and bars.
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