Navigating the Strait between legend and future – Mini Regatta “On the Route of Ulysses”is the project promoted by the Lions Club Messina Host and from the Technical Institute of Transport and Logistics “Caius Duilius”sponsored by the Municipality of Messina.
This is a valuable initiative that involved nautical students engaged in the reconstructionthrough the observation of nautical charts and comparison with Homeric texts and in particular with the book by the German Wolf, of the route taken by Ulysses on the Strait.
The same route will be retraced on October 1st with a unique sailing regatta in which at least seven boats will participate. The departure will be in the morning from Torre Faro to reach Falce.
This morning the presentation of the project, in the great hall of the Institute, in the presence of the director Daniela Pistorinowith the interventions of the councilor Enzo Caruso and a representation of the Lions Club Messina Host.
The initiative also sees synergy with theGiostra Philharmonic Orchestra andBrera Academy of Fine Arts who will send a photographer for the occasion.
The idea, explained the director Pistorino, was born following a project carried out in 2023 “Italy seen from the sea, places and emotions from another perspective” with a sailing boat named Kamala, like the Goddess born from the ocean, the Great Mother manifestation of beauty on Earth: “The sailing experience brings man closer to the Earth because it increases the awareness of living with limited resources, requires the management of human relationships in restricted spaces and close distances, brings life back to natural rhythms and offers an unusual point of view.“.
“The rereading of the Homeric Odyssey – said Pistorino – is intended not only as poetry, but also as historical document, with a precise location of the placesin this case those identified in the area of the Strait of Messina, has given life to a map that will retrace them with a mini regatta, sailing in the myth along the Sicilian and Calabrian coast, to appreciate their beauty and capture their emotions from the sea”.