The Isola dei Cavoli’s wreck

The waters around the Isle of the Cabbages keep, at a depth of a bit more than 10 metres, the remains of a ship that the researchers have indicated as an Aragon merchant ship coming from Spain. The study was brought about using the information drawn from the collected load and including, for the largest part, a large quantity of “azulejos”, typical tiles produced in the area of Valencia and probably addressed to decorate the palace of a famous noble family from Palermo.

Among the objects survived to the wreck, dating back approximately 1450, several guns and munitions, typical amphorae and kitchenware of that period painted with different drawings, and the anchor of the ship have also been collected. It is also necessary to remember that the wreck, thanks to its accessibility, was largely sacked in the past years before the archaeological survey carried out by the drivers who explored the shallow waters around the isle.