At world crossroads

At the crossroads of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Mediterranean Sea, that the Romans called Mare Nostrum (our sea), is the very cradle of Western civilisation. From the Roman Empire to the Egyptian pyramids, from the Greek thinkers to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, from the birth of the Judeo-Christian religions to modern day, the Mediterranean world has, over the centuries, born privileged testimony to the important evolutions of humanity.

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