"It was the East that pushed Europe towards the West," writes historian Alessandro Vanoli. Columbus and Magellan wanted to reach the Indies, where so much wealth came from, where knowledge had always come from. First and foremost, America was the West Indies. The concept of the West was born looking towards the east and was in parallel with the redefinition of Europe, a name-idea that the Greeks had invented and that had been used in the early Middle Ages, soon replaced by the term Christendom in opposition to Islam. There was then a time of alliance between Christianity and the Chinese Empire against the powerful Ottoman world.

On the one hand, the cove attracts me with an exaggerated and even cruel sensuality. On the other, when the good weather arrives, the country scares me away. Perhaps more villas have been built in the protected area, or perhaps the city authorities have further restricted street parking, reserving winter and summer for the wealthy who own a house and garage and only come for a fortnight.

Until recently, it was thought that the remote islands of the Mediterranean had been uninhabited until the arrival of the first farmers and ranchers. Research published in the journal Nature The study, led by Eleanor Scerri, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Germany) and the University of Malta, with the participation of Ethel Allué and Aitor Burguet-Coca from IPHES-BÚSQUEDA and the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), documents a voyage for the first time. According to the study's authors, this voyage was carried out using "dug-out canoes without sails." The navigators oriented themselves using the stars, ocean currents, and coastal landmarks.