The Medi­ter­ranean Sea — Sea of the seas

Every year mil­lions of Sun-hungry tou­rists, among them flock also innu­me­rable divers, on the coasts and on the islands of the Medi­ter­ranean. This hour-long traffic jams clogged highways as well as waiting times at air­ports are taken to our House sea or even the “mare nostrum” How’s the Romans called to get.

But the Medi­ter­ranean is not ever­y­where equal to Medi­ter­ranean, it includes an enormous variety, what pro­bably is the appeal of this sea. The “a” Medi­ter­ranean is it not, but rather many dif­ferent “seas” with all its variety of land­s­capes, scenes, cul­tures, lan­guages and reli­gions.

If the ferocity of long rock coasts with tiny, embedded between rock Cape beaches such as z. B. on the Riviera or endless, shallow sandy beaches such as z. B. on the Adriatic coast or on the Costa Brava, whether the island world of the Aegean Sea with all its mys­tical magic or islands such as Malta, Corsica and the Balearic Islands with its special scenery above and below water, whether the African mainland coast or, or, or…: all these parts of the Medi­ter­ranean Sea have a magical fasci­nation on us Europeans.

Not least cer­tainly also because in the coun­tries that sur­round the Medi­ter­ranean, the cradle of our Western culture. The wan­de­rings of Odysseus and the cam­paigns of con­quest of the Roman Empire still inspire our fan­tasies.