An important event will take place for 4 days between La Maddalena and Olbia. From tomorrow, Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 May, the seventh national underwater archeology conference will take place dedicated to the figure of Nino Lamboglia, protagonist in the 60s of the recovery of the so-called ship of Spargi, whose finds are kept in the Maddalena, in the naval museum which bears the name of Lamboglia (currently closed, awaiting extraordinary restoration and modernization already financed).

For the first 3 days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the conference will take place in La Maddalena, between the council hall and the Navy Officers Club) while it will end in Olbia, Sunday 14 May, at the Archaeological Museum. The three days in La Maddalena will be «a return to the places that saw the birth of the discipline in Italy - the organizers write - with the pioneering activity and the first archaeological investigations in the aquatic environment conducted in the surrounding seas of the island, now over sixty years ago ».

The organizers recall how in these first activities the figure of Nino Lamboglia was "fundamental, with the establishment, within the International Institute of Ligurian Studies, of the Experimental Center of Marine Archeology of Albenga and with the start of systematic investigations of the wreckage of Spargi, which was followed by other searches on the things of Sardinia». The conference will take stock of the discipline, compare methodologies, training, research and the dissemination of results.

© Riproduzione riservata