A little below the three towers then, Count Agostino Pepoli, (1848-1911) scholar, lover of beauty and patron around 1870 had a “turret” built, a silent refuge for his meditations, an ideal meeting, in those years, for men of culture, artists and such as the writer Ugo Antonio Amico, the musicologist Alberto Favara, the archaeologist Antonino Salinas, the minister Nunzio Nasi and others.
Recently inaugurated, today the Torretta, after a skilful restoration work, is returned to the international community and to the public tourist-cultural use, as a permanent Peace Observatory and Mediterranean Lighthouse.
Inside, an interactive multimedia museum will be installed, an innovative way of cultural enjoyment, a journey through history, culture, myth and tradition of the characters and the city of Erice told by the same voice of Count A. Pepoli.
In agreement with the University of Palermo, a magazine will also be produced, the Journal web with the significant title “Mediterranean society sights” written by the students of the Universities of the whole Mediterranean, characterized by an approach of intercultural comparison, but also interreligious with a preferential projection towards current international and Mediterranean problems, in order to seek future prospects for peace and integration through a process of cooperation shared by all the souls of the Mediterranean panorama.
