Phoenicia was an element such as a hinge connecting the East and West, supplying goods in the Near East and spreading westwards oriental products. Through this network, the Phoenicians were placed as carriers of ideas and men around the Mediterranean, becoming the architects of a peaceful and continuous dialogue, balance and coexistence among different and distant cultures.
The Phoenician expansion in Mediterranean basin and the activation of the caravan route, connecting the Arabian peninsula, mark a change from the Late Bronze Age trade routes after the invasions of the Sea Peoples. But the role of the Phoenician cities in those long-distance trade is also an element of continuity between the second and first millennium BC, during the great empires of the Near East.
25-27 January 2012, Tyre, Lebanon
Mare Nostrum 6th Transnational Meeting
Mare Nostrum stops on January 25-27, 2012 in Tyre (Lebanon), launching the 3rd Conference "Phoenician Routes in the Mediterranean Sea" (27.01.2012), the 2nd MELKART Craftsmen Exhibition and Handicraft Market (23-29.01.2012) and the presentation of the Heritage Trails and Sustainable Tourism Development Plans in the project city-ports partners (25.01.2012).
Paralleli - Euromediterranean Institute managed a pilot experience of participatory planning in Tyre (Lebanon). This experience aimed to promote of the heritage value of historic port-cities along the Phoenician routes and to suggest guidelines for new tourist itineraries in the cities of reference.
25 November 2011, Florence, Italy -Melkart Workshop. Intangible Heritage.
Mare Nostrum will focus the Melkart workshop on the theme of intangible heritage, mapping and empowering a priceless Mediterranean legacy for sustainable tourism development.
I want to understand and live it more
Childers of Mare Nostrum Port-Cities discovering and learning their cities through visits, exercises and workshops.
Mare Nostrum partnership is launching Workshops for school children in the Port-Cities partner:
Carthage, Marsaxlokk, Rhodes, Tartous/Arwad and Tyre.
A Tool Kit published in English, French and Arabic is available.
Phoenician routes in the Mediterranean MARE NOSTRUM Conference, send your ideas for papers before May 31
The 2nd Conference of Mare Nostrum “Phoenician Routes in the Mediterranean sea”, will take place in Carthage on September 23, 2011, in the framework of the 5th Transnational meeting.
A Call for Papers is launched, inviting Partners and Associates to suggest speakers and to forward the title of the candidate intervention. Preliminary proposals must be sent before May 31, 2011 to eh4.marenostrum@gmail.com. read more
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