LIVORNO – The Propeller Club Port of Leghorn’s “AperiPorto” last evening, an initiative that featured the presentation of the book titled: “Di terra e di Mare – Viaggio lungo la costa livornese” – Edizioni ETS. The authors were present, the journalist Elisabetta Arrighi who is also a member of the Club, and the biologist and researcher Fabrizio Serena. The event was moderated by the Club’s president, Maria Gloria Giani Pollastrini, and by the maritime director of Tuscany and commander of the Port Authority of Livorno, Admiral Giovanni Canu, honorary member of the Livorno Propeller.
The volume’s first part describes an interesting journey along the Livorno coast, accompanied by graphs and illustrations of scientific results, while the second part narrates a journey through history, art, and curiosities thanks to the fluid and pleasant writing of Elisabetta Arrighi.
The co-authors, Arrighi and Serena, recounted the state of our mare nostrum, from the Secche della Meloria to the Secche di Vada, both characterized by the presence of two historic lighthouses, friendly lights – together with the historic Fanale di Livorno – for all navigators.
Fabrizio Serena, formerly at the top of Arpat Mare, an international-level researcher, and author of the scientific part of the volume, has “photographed” the state of our waters and our seabeds, which all in all are in good health. A scientific narrative filtered through climate changes, the presence of alien fish and algae, pollution, boat traffic and port traffic, highlighting the necessity to implement everything needed to preserve the natural environment. President Giani, with several interventions, solicited various specific insights, just as Rear Admiral Giovanni Canu, maritime director of Tuscany and commander of the Port Authority of Livorno, emphasized the important role of the Coast Guard in protecting the sea and the coasts.
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The sea and the land speak to each other and tell one, a hundred, a thousand stories – explained co-author Elisabetta Arrighi, a former journalist for Il Tirreno – “They in fact tell of a territory that saw the Etruscan civilization develop, that accompanied the passage of the Romans, then the dark centuries of the Middle Ages, the pirate raids, finally the Medici, to slide towards the Century of Enlightenment and arrive at the present day.
In front of this land characterized by a jagged and beautiful coastline, among rocks but also sandy shores, there has always been the immensity of the sea, with its secrets and the great beauty of the seabeds. A unique habitat, just as the “treasures” handed down to us by history are unique, without forgetting some curiosities strictly linked to local traditions, from the most famous street food, namely the torta di ceci, but also to that cinematic path traced by great actors and directors on the promontory of Castiglioncello just as a century earlier the Macchiaioli, i.e., the painters of the ‘macchia’, had done.
The last stop of the “land journey” is the Civic Archaeological Museum of Rosignano Marittimo, housed in the halls of Palazzo Bombardieri in the Castle area where the historic town hall is also located. It is here that the journey along the coast concludes, returning to the starting point, where everything began. There, in fact, among the museum collections we can “meet our ancestors and, in the end, we will almost certainly manage to understand something more about ourselves.”
The evening took place under the Propeller’s “AperiPorto” format, in a welcoming setting such as the Urban Cuisine room of the RistoPub Amedeo in Piazza Goldoni in Livorno.
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