This bluefin tuna manufacturing unit was established within the mid-Nineteenth century by the Florio household, Sicilian businesspeople who owned a number of different profitable ventures, together with the well-known Florio Vineyard in Marsala. The manufacturing unit was as soon as the most important employer on the islands of Favignana, and the annual Mattanza (the standard Sicilian technique of looking and slaughtering bluefin tuna) grew to become a ritual for the islands' inhabitants. Vincenzo Florio pioneered the method of preserving tuna in oil, and the ability was used to bundle the tuna and oil in tin cans.
At this time, the previous tuna manufacturing unit services are residence to a museum, the place multimedia reveals discover the historical past of Mattanza. The area additionally incorporates an antiquarium with underwater artifacts from the Egadi archipelago and a reconstruction of the Battle of the Egadi Islands.
