The Duke's House Museum, housed in the eighteenth-century fort Carlo Emanuele III, tells the story of the colonization of the island of San Pietro through six themed rooms and a garden of Mediterranean plants, promoting local culture and heritage.
The Tuna Room hosts artifacts and tools related to tuna fishing, including a model of a tuna trap made by an old rais. This model clearly illustrates the "calato," which is the set of anchors and nets that form a large rectangular structure extending from the seabed to the surface. There is also a scale model of the nineteenth-century Portopaglia plant, faithfully reproducing the various stages of tuna processing and preservation.
The Galanzieri Room displays numerous historical documents dedicated to the boatmen, or galanzieri, along with the main tools used for navigation and for collecting and transporting ore with sailing boats. The Documents Room contains historical documents from the early years of the colonization of the island of San Pietro. Very interesting is the content of the Malacological Room, which houses a vast and fascinating collection of Mediterranean shells, with particular attention to those from the southwestern Tyrrhenian Sea.
The tour ends in the Farming Activities Room, where artifacts and tools typical of rural life are exhibited, and in the Emanuelli Room, which hosts a collection of paintings by the artist Mario Emanuelli.
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