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Tuna factory of Bonagia
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Located in an area made famous by the news, passed from Fazello as other ancient historians, the burial happened Anchise, father of Enea, the Bonagia tuna is one of the most ancient and valuable, already in operation in 1266 under the Angevins. Rose in the drops that in 1496 was elevated to the rank of port status confirmed by Ferdinand II, and cited by Brother Bologna Leandro Alberti who, in 1526, described the tower designed by Camillani. The current construction is not, however, magnified by the same scholar: in June 1624, in fact, one of Banda pirates began to iron and fire destroying the tuna run the tower. On its rubble was immediately rebuilt, according to the plan of the former, which, even today, we can admire and which was completed in 1626, as the date carved around the front door. At the Tonnara of Bonagia was owned by the Royal Court of Naples and that remained until 1638 when it was sold to Baron D. Antonino Stella; past, then, property ownership, remained in possession of the Dukes of Castel di Myrtle until it was ceded to the new Opera Pia of Casteldimirto. It underwent a period of abandonment that ended in 1876 when it was reactivated and reported productivity. Then, the administration was taken dall'Ospedale Do Well Brother Palermo, who in 1923 sold for the amount of three million - to Fenicia SpA Fishing in Trapani. The tuna made a lot of Bonagia to its owners because of constant and good fishing. It worked up to recent times. Inside the Tonnara there is a chapel built in 1749 by Antonio Stella, Baron of Bonagia, "protection" from pirate raids continue. Inside a wooden crucifix, which after several vicissitudine was placed by Rais Saroro Renda on the church. The complex was fully renovated in 1996, transforming the ancient establishments dedicated to fishing and tuna processing in a tourist hotel complex that contains within it a centuries-old history and unique and many signs of a culture born and lived with the sea. The tower now houses the Museum of Tonnara where memorabilia, exhibits, a faithful reproduction of a miniature tuna real, old tools work, testify to the past and the wisdom of tonnaroti that fishing for tuna did a myth that Homer sang.
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