Beirut. Travel impressions.
(By Simone Perotti) Two weeks in a town that has divided the crew and the feelings of the crew. Not very useful to list them all. Let’s say: some neutrals, some favorable, and one against. Supporters have come to us by our hosts, [...]
The Route 2017
Progetto Mediterranea, three yrs from the departure from Italy, sailing in the Eastern sea. As scheduled, the boat Mediterranea, armed ketch in 60-foot cutter designed by Michel Bigoin, continues the route carrying out its three objectives: nautical, cultural and scientific. And for the summer, as [...]
Cultural meetings in Cyprus: Varosha, the ghost-town and the Famagusta Ecocity Project
(By Simone Perotti) Larnaka, 25 September 2016, on board Mediterranea. Christina and Nicholaos, representatives of the Famagusta Ecocity Project (go and see on the web, it’s worth), have the faces of young hopefuls. The first news of this our exploration of Cyprus is thus that after [...]
Let the people happen!
(By Laura Murgia) Arkoi, Dodecanese | June 1, 2016 – Afternoon forwarded, take a bath in the sea in the Strait Ormos Bay, lazily when the sun begins to set. Mediterranea shares the harbor with another vessel, while a Gin Fizz 11 meters, with [...]
Progetto Mediterranea and the Mediterranean voices
(...) Set sail for the Mediterranean will begin a long, slow, gradual, arduous, unpredictable return home. Which it is absent for too long. Where we have to find our rooms, lights, objects, sounds with which we were brought up, the lack of which [...]
Aboard Mediterranea we do this way
(by Simone Perotti) Aboard Mediterranea we do this way. The more experts make room for those who need to gain experience. During the first year sailing our boat required the humility of waiting, working care. Whoever was on board, experienced or not, washed, put fenders [...]
Cultural meetings in Istanbul: the video-abstract
The video-promo intro to the uncut interviews of the Meetings in Istanbul directed by Simone Perotti. The faces and words of the turkish thoughts, in the places and spaces of Istanbul. A man makes a question, the Turkey answeres, in a socratic dialogue that is also [...]
Black Sea dolphin – Yunus Karadeniz
In the Black Sea live 3 species of dolphins: the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ponticus), the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis ponticus) and harbor porpoises (Phocaena phocaena relicta). The dolphins that live in the Black Sea are genetically and morphologically distinct from other dolphin populations in the western [...]
A turkish recipe by chef Musa Dagdeviren for Progetto Mediterranea
We want to discuss flavours, taste, contamination, differences and similarities in the large and fascinating melting pot of the Mediterranean cuisine, and chef Musa Dagdeviren doesn't wait to be asked twice. "Turkey is not a uniform nation from a gastronomical point of view Tangible [...]
Mediterranea in Tbilisi: the cultural programme
Mediterranea boat is sailing to know the Mediterranean, the sea and its history. And not only. Mediterranea boat is sailing with the aim to meet the culture of the Mediterranean, and then intellectuals, artists, writers with whom to exchange ideas and points of view. Mediterranea [...]
“Tell me three flavors…” – a survey finding the flavors of Mediterranean
The great Marseille writer Jean-Claude Izzo, in his fiction "Garlic, Mint and Basil", identified in these three spices the final, REPRESENTATIVE, emblematic flavors of the Mediterranean. He looked at our world from Marseille, and therefore we can understand the reason for this choice. [...]
Hüseyin Coban and the design of beauty
(by Giuliana Rogano) Turkey, Amasra – May 6, 2015 Unexpected meetings are the most beautiful, are the surprises that the journey gives you, are the surprises of the Mediterranean, are the surprises of our project. Half an hour after we arrived at Amasra harbour a [...]
