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Tonnara del Secco.
About three kilometres from the residential centre of San Vito, the old Tonnara del Secco stands. Its nets were dropped a few meters from the shore in the seas of Capo San Vito and in the inlet of San Giuliano. This was how large fish were caught, which in the springtime, during the reproduction period, travelled through waters of the gulf of Castellammare.

The nets have not been thrown into the sea since 1969, but the place preserves its ancient charm and the fishermen of the place love to tell of the adventures of the mattanza ritual.


Next to the buildings of the tuna fishery, we can admire what is the left of the very ancient fish processing equipment (especially for tuna), such as the tubs of coccio-pesto mortar, which date back to the 4th century B.C.


 

 
 
 
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