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Also being a swampy place and therefore for its deeply unhealthy nature, Vendicari has been inhabited since the antiquity. Than than more true and own centers inhabited to you it was dealt for more than takeovers it finalizes you to the exploitation delle resources that the territory offered. In the first place the peach and the treatment of the fished one have been the main activities of which they already remain traces to leave from the hellenistic age. To little tens of meters from the tower sveva some rests of an ancient plant for the working of the fish are in fact present. In this area, in fact, they came, already then (and for centuries and until the second world war), fishes the tonni to you that of return from the reproduction places they journeyed for these waters. Of the ancient plant they are remained of the bathtubs, dug directly in the scogli, in which used sauce came prepared one a lot in the antiquity: it is believed quite that nearly the totality of the pietanze came flavored with this prepared: the so-called garum.

In parallel with the working of the fish also the extraction of knows them has been a centennial activity to Vendicari thanks to the morphology of the territory. The marshes, in fact, were lend to this activity for their low depth and the connection from always existing with the sea that  guaranteed the money laundering of waters. It knows them came used for the salagione of the tonni that from they left here to the time of the markets.

Meant rests to you of this travel they are tutt' hour present in the reservoir: they are the rests of the ancient one via Elorina that connected the port of Vendicari with Netum (Famous). Obvious rests are tutt' today observable to flank of the small marsh: draft of furrows deep little cm, than in the time they have been digs to you from the wagons.