Tourism in Sambuca di Sicilia

The Etno-Antropologico Museum of the Earth of Zabuth  

The Etno-Antropologico Museum of the Earth of Zabuth it has been realized in 1985 from the Common one of Sambuca of Sicily.

Its construction must to the fact that in recent times, later on to the advent of the technology, the universe peasant and the material culture risks the oblivion to the own origins, with the serious danger to cancel from the memory a patrimony fruit one secular competence.

For the old peasants and shepherds, to which the tools from job evokes hard work exploitation and soprusi, the istituzione of the Etno-anthropological Museum has been a way in order to become protagonists and to riappropriarsi of the own one identit` social human and.

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Located for many years in Palazzo Panitteri the Etno-anthropological Museum of the Earth of Zabuth has center in the Arabic Quarter currently.

The collection, consisting in a rich patrimony of agricultural and pastorali tools, constitutes a tangible testimony of traditional difficult but nearly always dignitosa activities that until to recent age have concurred the survival, to times, of our ancestors.

Fanno leaves of the Museum the necessary instruments for the several phases of the production of the grain: spietratura of the land, plowing, seeds, mietitura, trebbiatura and etc...

In an other atmosphere is placed how much was necessary to the shepherdesses for the casearia production and in the daily life.