Our firm houses a unique "Anchovy Museum", a due acknowledgment to this little fish which has given and goes on giving our small village of Aspra a great worldwide popularity.
We're trying to recover and defend our tradition in salt anchovy packaging, thanks to a careful search of material and historical documents.
Inside the Museum, a photo exhibition, entitled "Life images throughout the years", gives us back a fragment of Aspra's history and of its maritime traditions. Every year the small museum is visited by lots of people from all over the world.
 
 
THE LEGEND OF THE ANCHOVEIES
 
«Once upon a time, you can't imagine how many years ago, a great family of stars shone in the sky; they were very little but very bright, perhaps the brightest stars in the universe. Their name was Engrauline and they were very very vain»
According to the legend the Engrauline were punished by God for their vanity and then thrown in the sea. From then on they were simply called «acciughe» (anchovies).
 
(From book "L'alice delle Meraviglie" of Mitì Vigliero Laimi, 1998 ed. Marsilio)
 


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