Presentation of the trip
Discover here Mediterranea Expedition (click on the image to download the pdf file)
Mashrou’ Leila. The sound of Arab Spring
Mashrou’ Leila comes from Beirut, they’re 25, they sing the love and politics and with the slogan #occupyarabpop, they are changing the face of music in the Middle East, becoming the soundtrack of the Arab revolutions. In their tracks there’s everything, revolution and hope, love and [...]
Pleiades
Here is Mediterranea, Vis 43° 4,271 N – 16° 14,545 E, August 19, 2013, at anchor, Stoncica lighthouse illuminates the stretch of water ahead of us, the moon lights up the sky, the hours pass, on board we talk, the moon disappears on the horizon, [...]
Zadar’s caronte
from Simone Perotti’s blog (august 31, 2013) I don’t know his face and even his name. I followed him already on arrival, passing over the head of the pier of the port. Then I look for him this morning, there he was, still, slow [...]
Fior di Levante
SONNET TO ZANTE Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take! How many memories of what radiant hours At sight of thee and thine at once awake! How many scenes of what [...]
Lepanto
Lepanto. In the Middle Ages the name of today’s Greek town Naupactus, in greek Naupaktos, in the Nomos of Aetolia and Acarnania, located on the northern coast of the strait which separates the Gulf of Corinth from that of Patras. In [...]
LogBook – along the route of “galere”
Waiting for the great expedition of Mediterranea, which will start in May 2014, we are publishing the LogBook “semi-serious” of the Mediterranea’s long summer 2013. A sailing trip from the Gulf of Corinth to Istria through the islands and the coast of eastern Greece, Albania, [...]
Moon on earth
And he thereon, belabouring his pumpkin: “The flatteries have submerged me here below, wherewith my tongue was never surfeited” (Hell, XVIII v. 124) If in these days you go around in the markets, you see it anywhere, on the stand. Between the apples and the [...]
The Ship Shed complex of Oiniades
In the area of the Acheloos River estuary, on the fertile plain formed by the river’s silt west of Mesolongi and near the village of Katochi, is the archaeological site of Oiniades 38° 24.340 N – 21° 11.935 E . The city was located on [...]
We are the History
“..to perceive itself same as interprets that they receive a witness to rebroadcast it to own time..” (Pietro Mastroberardino) The history of a family. A family that is also a wine and of a wine that is the territory in which it is born: the [...]
Philosophy in a coffee
“Here’s your coffee, Sir, coffee in Saudi born, / from Ispaan brought in by caravans. / The Arab is certainly always the best coffee (…) You want to do little; / Put you your dose, and not be paid to the fire. / Far rouse [...]
Giulia Civita Franceschi and the Ship of “Scugnizzi”
In this story there isn’t a sailboat and not a man but it is a story of the sea and life of a woman and a ship and deserves to be told here. The main characters are : a ship, the “Francesco Caracciolo” a neapolitan [...]
