Exhibition – industrial archeology itineraries in Sicily

The Italian Association for the Archaeological Industrial Heritage, Aifai, Sicilia Regional Section, He is organizing the exhibition "Paths of industrial heritage in Italy / industrial archeology itineraries in Sicily", in Palermo at the Antique Fornaci Maiorana, Via Cardinal Mariano Rampolla n. 68.

The Antique Fornaci Maiorana at the foot of Monte Pellegrino, near the Acquasanta district, not far from the Hotel Villa Igiea and the monumental Villa Belmonte, are a pre-industrial complex consisting of two furnaces for the production of lime and a mill for the production of aggregates. They were made in 1945 the Maiorana family in that area called feud Barca that since 1799 It was owned by the Prince of Belmonte.
The plant covers an area of ​​approximately 3.000 m2 located above a pirriera, ie a quarry of calcarenite from which since the eighteenth century was drawn the building material, and it is divided into three levels including a large part ipogea. Manufacturing activity initiated by Sebastiano Maiorana remained active until 1968.

The exhibition was inaugurated last 29 November 2018, directly as an initiative promoted by the Regional Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity.

Same time was presented in the latest issue of the magazine AIPAI "Industrial Heritage" n. 17, Parks dedicated to mining abandoned in Italy,