Tonnara of San Cusumano
La tuna trap of San Cusumano is an industrial complex formed by the ancient “Combined tuna traps of San Giuliano Palazzo and San Cusumano“, with attached canning factory, which is located on the seafront of Trapani in the territory of the municipality of Erice.
The first nucleus of the tuna fishery of San Giuliano Palazzo was built in the XNUMXth century. on Punta Tipa, the first tonnara in western Sicily, even before that of Favignana. Owned by the Fardella counts, then by the Borghese of Rome, the Serraino and the Tipa families.
At the beginning of the 900th century, the buildings of San Cusumano replaced the now dilapidated ones of the contiguous tuna fishery of San Giuliano, which had the fishing rights in the north sea of Trapani. The Trapani patricians who between 1800 and 900 had set up tuna traps throughout the area (San Giuliano, San Cusumano, Formica, Bonagia) and who delivered the product to various small local product processing companies, entered a crisis in the 70s. 1979. Until 2003 the nets continued to be lowered for the slaughter in the sea off the coast of Trapani, from that year onwards it joined the Bonagia tuna trap and the last slaughter was carried out in XNUMX.
In 1975 the canning company of the entrepreneur Nino Castiglione (1908-1987) had purchased the tuna traps of San Giuliano and Bonagia and moved from its premises in the Trapani fishing port to those of the former tuna trap of San Cusumano, renovating them and changing their name to " Tuna traps of Bonagia and Sancusumano” and the capture was accompanied by the conservation and distribution of the product.
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