Salvatore Murana’s story begins at the town cemetery, a location with a strong symbolic meaning: there the islanders rest, who wisely and with great spirit of adaptation have perfected, preserved and handed down the agricultural practice of the alberello vine. He talks about the recognition of this agricultural practice as a UNESCO intangible heritage obtained in 2014 and then he continues his narrative journey by deepening the history of dried fruit production, and with it the history of Pantelleria, up to the Zibibbo wine.
He also talks about a mission to Mars to imagine the future.
The second part of the story resumes in “his” protected place: the plateau of Muéggen. Surrounded by his alberello vines, some of which are eighty years old, he speaks to us in detail about Zibibbo and Passito di Pantelleria.

Interiew by: Mariangela Bianco e Marco Bottigliero
Video by: Vincenzo Pascolo, Napoli Film Industry
Video Editing by: Paolo Barone, Napoli Film Industry
Document by: Mariangela Bianco
Subtitle ita by: Marco Bottigliero
Subtitle eng by: Francesca Magnani
Translation by: Francesca Magnani
Realized: 26/10/2022

Production of ethnographic video interviews for the populating of the Virtual Museum of the cultivation of “vite ad alberello” of Pantelleria, a UNESCO heritage site

Salvatore Murana

Year: 09/03/1956
City: Pantelleria (TP)
Profession: Wine grower, Farmer and Vice president of the DOC Pantelleria Consortium
Language: Italian

Video table of contents

- 00:08:03 The significance of UNESCO recognition
- 00:01:38 From dried fruit production to Zibibbo wine
- 00:05:48 How to imagine the future

- 00:04:28 Everthing tastes like Zibibbo
- 00:00:40 The potential of Zibibbo
- 00:02:39 Plant life that tells the story

Geographic information

Country: IT
Region: Sicilia
City: Isola di Pantelleria, c.da Khamma (Trapani)
Altitude: 300 m slm

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