Favignana and Marettimo seen from Levanzo
Make a tourist route to the Egadi, It means enter into the order of ideas to dispose of their vacation days in a completely unusual.
To learn more about the resources of these islands, they are anthropological, history, Landscaping and archaeological, it will be necessary to turn one's attention to the hypogea and to the Favignana tuff quarries, to prehistoric times cave of the Genovese di Levanzo, to the wonderful caves and al incomparable panorama of Pizzo Falcone in Marettimo.
We must go over with imagination the legendary route of Ulysses, review the fury of the battle between Romans and Punic in the splendid waters of Cala Rossa, recover the memory of the great activities of the traps and the greatness of the Florio. Only in this way, views, life, memories, images, They will put in our minds and hearts with all the atmosphere and magic that they can create the Egadi.
A route by the legendary moves to reality and from this magic, maybe today is possible if you are able to project in the near future the recent history of the islands.
L’establishment of marine and land reserves certainly it is the ideal prerequisite for this to happen, provided, however, that there is scope for great social views breath, environment and culture by all: institutions, economic forces, population.
The work that institutions have in place needs a fast shuffle that guarantees work and conversion work in an integrated project of overall development with appropriate and timely intervention.
For this it is not only necessary to assume the future but simultaneously create concrete conditions of perspective and flexibility to permit a smooth transition, indeed spa, from the current condition of bureaucratic-legislative imbrigliamento to a real planning that you look at Egadi such a large natural park with flexible structures capable of diversifying the degrees of protection of natural and environmental values but also social and cultural and so as to allow a remarkable synthesis that looks real adaptation of the legislative instruments to the characteristics of the entire territory and its development that we want to magical thinking.
Strong, dura, tender, vulnerable, proud and tenacious, The island population is the daughter and mother at the same time of this land, It is produced and producer of this environment. E’ a unique fusion that has forgotten the taste of that unique authenticity deriving from belonging, from being at one with the land.
Men and women carved as their rocks, resistant to the winds as their flora, calm and violent as their sea, crystalline, deep, uncontaminated, those holy men and women will simply bastards.
Men who tear from the sea the livelihoods, with tenacity and sacrifice is not without risk, measuring courage and human power by force and violence of the sea, in a magical challenge, antica, that is between the sacred and the profane, using simple tools in harmony with nature.
Men who do not save, and that, in the tuna fishing, bring into play with that spirit and that authentic power of “The old Man and the Sea”.
Men who have not sold themselves, their land and their sea devastating to the lure of a modern development devouring everything, but men willing and ready to compete in bet with an even smarter world, able to fully enjoy the strong taste of the true nature.
Men and women who know how to put in place genuine energy, for a new creative projects that reinvent and reshape the future still uncertain and confused, who know how to link the past with a strong forward projection, who can fully exploit languishing economy but shows solid cultural and environmental roots, transforming without losing anything of what you are, converting and recreating themselves first, then the land and the work.
Men and women who know how to overcome old suspicions, hesitation and resistance to change, who know how to put together because the ability to adapt is endless.
