On 5 July to Salerno the presentation of a book will hold on the history of the city port



Next the 5 July to hours 10,00, near the Marine Station of Zaha Hadid of Salerno, will hold the presentation of the book "Port of Salerno. A long history ten centuries" of the marittimista lawyer Alfonso Mignone, published volume of 174 pages give Of Friend of Nocera Superiore to which they have collaborated also the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central, Pietro Spirito, the teacher of the chair of Planning of the Transports near the University of the Studies of Salerno, Stefano de Luca and Giuseppe Iannacone, besides the entrepreneurs Agostino Gallozzi, president of Gallozzi Group, and Antonia Autuori, managing director of the Marine Agency Michele Autuori.

The publication is yields of a new and gotten passionate search on the marine origins of the city of Salerno that became not only vital of a powerful Principality, but also and, above all, after the end of from Amalfi independence and the Norman conquest, store of international importance in the Mediterranean which competed for between Arabs, Byzantine and the Marine Republics of Genoa, Pisa and Venice.

As many other coastal towns, Salerno has perceived from always the requirement of a stable port and efficient that conciliated the necessities of the mercantile flows and the interests of the local economy but to realize it have not been easy enterprise. Multiple they were the limitazionali factors to the development of the infrastructure as the cyclical phenomenon of the sand fill, which had to the geomorfologiche characteristics of the shoreline Salerno province and the many difficulties in order to tackle to the huge necessary expenses to its completion. The port of call, place in favorable geographic position, benefitted of the traffic of line of genoese, pisani, Catalan, Byzantine and Arabic it already became crossroads of the marine traffics in the Mediterranean in the XIII century graces also to the institution of an intentional mercantile Fair by the Church and from Reigning that it allowed the city of Salerno to become "square" for coming merchants from Close East, Egypt, Mauritania, Greece and Marseilles who reached Salerno in ship. although the processes of globalization of the economy of the Mediterranean. In the course of the next centuries, but, the port of call Salerno province has suffered strongly the vicinity from the port of Naples and solo recently has found again, once integrated in the "System" of the ports of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central, its centrality in the marine routes between the West and East, those which a time Arabic and the Byzantine ones had contended for centuries without to succeed to establish an own Maritime naval supremacy and that now they take part of the Silk Road.

The encounter on 5 July, moderated by Emilia Leonetti, journalist and press officer of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea, after the salutes of Orazio De Nigris, managing director of Marine Station Salerno, will see the participations of Pietro Spirito, president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central, Stefano de Luca, associate university professor Pianificazione of the Transports of the University of the Studies of Salerno, Agostino Gallozzi, president of Gallozzi Group, and Antonia Autuori, managing director of the Marine Agency Michele Autuori. To the encounter the author of the volume will be present, Alfonso Mignone.