OUR CRAFTSMEN IN THE MELKART MARKET
Mare Nostrum partnership has launched in 2011 the MELKART Markets experience, a travelling exhibition of traditional handicraft from the Mare Nostrum heritage city-ports.
Our craftsmen expose their activity, materials, techniques and products during events organized in public space of the historic ports, along the Phoenician commercial itineraries in the Mediterranean.
This is the first time that horizons are open at transnational level for local traditional and quality handicraft, hidden treasures of our historic port-cities, aiming to be supportive to the Mare Nostrum Heritage Trails and our Sustainable Tourism development plans.
The first MELKART Market scheduled in Carthage on 18-25 September 2011 and organized by NGO DELARPA, Mare Nostrum associate in Tunisia, included a Poster Exhibition of the craftsmen and a handicraft exhibition of eleven craftsmen and market of their products.
The second MELKART Market is organized in Tyre on 22-27 January 2012 by the Tyre Municipality during the 6th Mare Nostrum Transnational meeting.
The MELKART Market is open for one week to the large public, that can get close contact with craftsmen and handicraft works, buy or order products, admire chef d’oeuvre of traditional techniques and compare regional similarities and differences.
