The photos of the stagnone of Marsala

Mothia
The Stagnone Lagoon

Flora and Fauna

Covering the litoranea road Marsala Bottoming drills to approximately km 20 from Bottoming drills to approximately 8 from Marsala, to the height of the village of S. Leonardo having on the right towards the Coast, penetrates itself in an extraordinary extended landscape to level of water sopito in a sleepiness of millenia to clear light, all soffuso of tenuous fadings that do not allow to see where, the sea ends and begins the earth In fact the eye is attracted, fascinated and tricked from the placid net of, you go up some, with its thinnest earth meshes scandita from the whiteness blinding of she knows them and from greens liquids like of watercolor that stemperi in a strange sea, a various, calm sea like Pond.

The horizon is closed from a hardly perceivable earth line that does not disturb the eye since, beyond of it, still spreads sea and sea this time bluer, indeed blue deep as soon as marked from the far and mountainous masses of the Egadi that line it is the profile hardly emerged from waters, of the island Great or Long Island which it must forming itself of the green watercolor of the Stagnone. The Long island in fact extending in all its lungezza from north to south from S.Teodoro Head towards Head Lilibeo and Marsala closes to the open sea an immense river basin of approximately Has 2,400 of superficiie with founds them lowest gives
Cm 25 to Mt 2,50 from which two very small islands, S Pantaleo (Mothia) and S emerge others. Maria, and the isolotto called the large Scuola.Un Hush it reigns ovunque because the islands are deserted if eccettuano the two families of the guardiani of S. Pantaleo (Mothia); no great boat can be taken risks in the low ones founds them of the Stagnone only furrowed from little boats of expert fishermen.
This singular place is one of the more interesting zones of Italy under various aspects. Inanzitutto from the naturalistic point of view the Stagnone and that that the ecologi call “humid sod” for excellence, that is a salato swampy river basin that it introduces precious equilibriums between flora and fauna from an exact one and oculata management of such natural patrimony could derive as it will be looked at beyond, great economic benefits.

Moreover the island of S. Pantaleo (Mothia) has given back partially the vestigia buried of the fenicia city of Mothia that is from considering a inestimabile almost only archaeological patrimony to the world.
The extension of the islands of the stagnone is following: Long island Has 119.700; Mothia Has 47,00; Saint Maria Has 23,00; The School is isolotto of some hundred of Mq islands tos be distant from the sicilian coast little hundreds of meters. The river basin of the Stagnone has particular characteristics of temperature and salinità: of winter the temperature of the water never does not come down to the disotto of the 12-14 °C and of summer it is in average of 26-27 °C arriving sometimes until 36 °C, laddove I found them are lower.
The percentage of salinità touches the 37 for winter thousands and the 42 for thousands of summer.

Map of the island of Mozia

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