Here we are in Porto Santo Stefano, to visit a small but important museum, dedicated to a traditional craft that has not yet quite disappeared: the shipwright.
The importance of this ancient craft tradition has led to the creation of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the traditional construction of boats on the Argentario, housed in the seventeenth-century Fortezza Spagnoloa. Here, the craft tools and boat models to scale are on display.
With the growing demand for boats for pleasure use, shipwrights have become real artists, so much so that their creations have become cult items. Monte Argentario has about ten of these craftsmen, also thanks to a qualification project in Porto Santo Stefano that involved young people starting out in the world of employment