Secco Tuna Trap

The Tuna Trap on the mainland, today obsolete, was a structure at the service of the marine tuna trap, with warehouses for the storage of nets and boats and with homes for the boat's crews.

The Tuna Trap on the mainland, today obsolete, was a structure at the service of the marine tuna trap, with warehouses for the storage of nets and boats and with homes for the boat's crews. There was also a factory for processing the tuna. The first official information of the Tuna Trap of San Vito go back to 1412, when King Ferdinando allowed the tuna fishing. Near the building you can find the remains of very old cetariae baths (4th century B.C.) where fish, also tuna, were processed, in order to obtain the fine garum (a fish sauce), very successful among the Romans.