L’isola disabitata. Approdi, memoria e topophilia

Abstract

A journey in the history of a small inhabited island, once connected to the island of Procida: Vivara. This island – a protected area on private land – is part of a volcanic crater now submerged, covers an area of 34 hectares and is characterized by the presence of archaeological, historical and cultural evidence in a wonderful natural environment. Vivara, 3500 years ago, was the seafaring destination of the earliest Western Mediterranean trade routes and an example of a community that, although in a limited period of time, was certainly capable of developing a common Mediterranean language, whose cultural heritage was the principal interest of the archaeological project – characterized by a strong interaction land-sea – at Procida-Vivara.