Objectives
The action MARE NOSTRUM - A Heritage Trail along the Phoenician maritime routes and historic port-cities of the Mediterranean Sea takes inspiration from the large exhibition ”La Mediterranée des Phoeniciens, de Tyr à Carthage” displayed at the Institut du Monde Arabe/IMA in Paris (6.11.2007~20.04.2008) and other different autonomous initiatives in the European Mediterranean countries on the re-qualification of strategic Mediterranean port-cities. Financed by European funds under the Programme Euromed Heritage IV, the action targets six Mediterranean Countries (Italy, Tunisia, Malta, Lebanon, Syria, Greece) that in the past have been routes of the Punic people and culture.
Objectives of MARE NOSTRUM are from the one side to:
- contribute to the public awareness-raising of the preservation and promotion of the Mediterranean port-cities sites and its archaeological sites along the Phoenician ring-thread routes in a past-present continuum;
- strengthen mutual understanding and dialogue between the Mediterranean basin cultures and communities by valorising and promoting their Cultural Heritage in a more communicative and educational effective way;
and, from the other side:
- enhance the antique relationship port-city as core of the tangible and intangible Mediterranean heritage promoting effective management plan to reduce the marginalisation of archaeological sites (Tyre, Tartous/Arward/Amrit, Siracusa/Ortigia, Carthage/Beja, Malta, among which Tarxien/Tal-Silg, Rhodes);
- enhance the economic and tourist development through the definition of management plans of the target sites to promote sustainable tourism and craft of quality.
