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1. Fishermen with long existent faces and young apprentices of the fishing art: a “Sea of Stories”, journey among the sea people, their life and work. 

2. Their ancestors built ships to cross the ocean, today the “ship builder axe masters” of the Sorrento peninsula build expensive boats disputed by the richest men in world. 

3. The ancient Romans named the Mediterranean see, the scene of all their wars, love stories and adventures, “Mare Nostrum” (our own see); today the people’s want of breeding littered so many among its most beautiful places to a “Mare Monstrum”. 

4. Are fishes souled? Are they intelligent? According to scholars a thousand times no, but looking into their eyes we may doubt. This rich image-report “Look at me, please” illustrates all concerning our fishes “eyes”. 

5. At Favignana, the “Mattanza” (tunny fishing) isn’t only a prosperous business, it’s also a mix of former rites and hierarchies, the sign of the hard and peculiar way to live with the sea. 

6. In Manfredonia’s harbor you may meet “Filippo”, an easygoing dolphin who once decided he will move hereto. At the beginning he was received with diffidence and trouble but soon he got everybody’s very mascot. 

7. Thou scanty is the sea extent that lays between Scilla and Cariddi, nevertheless it witnessed any among the most ancient stories in the world: from Ulysses to the Bronzi of Riace, from the Roman’s sea-fights to the Saracen’s conquests. 

8. From this colors looking like a Missoni’s pattern to that lines evoking Armani’s severity, fish’s “dresses” are one of the most dazzling and colorful realities in world. 

9. At Procida some places and times are really magic: for instance the borough named “Corricella”, a small universe the self-same since centuries, or the Good Friday procession, which begins at sunrise and stretches over the whole day long, when the holy statues are carried over the streets where figurations of the see and its fishermen files off, too. 

10. Azzurra (Blue), Verde (Green), Bianca (White), Meravigliosa (Wonderful)... Delightful stories half way between the sea and the sky concerns the caves of Capri.

11. The School ship “Caracciolo” had been a very unique educational pattern: to give the Naples’ urchins a chance learning a profession strictly related to the sea. 

12. Its one among the few sea-parks in Italy, stretching over a land belonging to the most beautiful in the world: the Parco Marino of Punta Campanella joints the preservation of its really peculiar habitat with the needs of a heavy touristic crowded area. 

13. “Lo guarracino che jeva pè mare...” (The monkfish swimming into the sea) is an old Neapolitan song, a kind of book of knowledge about the undersea world: photo-report on the origins of this song and of all the fishes named in it. 

14. Everything at Ventotene recalls freedom: the beaches, the rocks, the seagulls rising in the air: journey to one of the most beautiful island of the pontinic archipelago.

15. It’s a very magic moment: a ship is to come forth. From Castellammare di Stabia, from one of the Italian oldest shipyards, this photo-report of the launching of a ship. 

16. Radars and forwarding fishing technologies supplanted the former art of fishing made of waiting, knowledge, and individual relation to the sea. Let’s take cognizance of the ancient tools of the fishing art. 

17. A legend tells us that Jesus commanded St. Peter to take a gold coin from the mouth of a fish. Because by apprehending the fish St. Peter left his fingerprints upon it, since than the fish was renamed into “St. Peter’s fish”. 

18. Only here in Naples you can find this peculiar hospital devoted to a very special kind of patients: those turtles that met the human savageness during their everlasting journey across the sea. No matter if a fishhook is knocked in the flesh or if this is teared asunder by the screw of a motor ship: this is the very unique place where to refuge.

19. The bradyseism submerged a whole town. Photo-report about the sunken town of Baia and its charming mosaics. 

20. The “Anton Dohrn” aquarium is the oldest in the world, renowned because here had been working a plenty of scholars that had later received the Nobel price; today it leads researches and programs in order to save turtles and other extinction risking animal species.