Camperia

The Camperia was used by the Nicolaci family in the early 1900s as a factory for the production of tuna in oil. The tuna was cooked in two furnaces equipped with chimneys of which only the smaller one remains today; the larger one, in fact, collapsed due to Anglo-American air raids during World War II. The large factory occupies the area of the “big field” bounded on the west by Viale Jonio, overlooking the Balata marina, on the north by Via Marzamemi and on the east by Via Letizia, which flows into Piazza Regina Margherita.