Stabilimento Florio, Tuna fishery and museum in Favignana, Italy

The Stabilimento Florio is a former tuna processing plant and current museum in Favignana, Italy, with several connected industrial buildings made of pale stone along the coast. The facility stretches across a large site with high vaulted ceilings, long processing halls, and courtyards where old machinery, boilers, and wooden work areas are preserved.

The Florio family leased the tonnara from Genoa's Pallavicini family in 1841, then bought Favignana and Formica and the fishing rights in 1874. Ignazio Florio commissioned architect Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda to enlarge and rebuild it, adding the tuna-preserving plant where tuna in oil was first boiled and canned. The Sicilian Region acquired the site in 1991 and restoration finished in 2010.

The name honours the Florio family, who leased the tonnara in 1841 and bought the islands and fishing rights in 1874. Ignazio Florio had architect Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda rebuild the plant, where tuna was boiled in 24 large boilers, still visible, then preserved in oil. Since June 2023 a Library of Tuna and Tuna Fisheries occupies part of the building.

The tour leads through processing rooms, storage areas, and outdoor courtyards where information panels in Italian and English explain the different stages of tuna processing. Comfortable shoes help when walking over uneven stone floors, and a morning visit avoids the hottest hours in summer.

The old tuna cans with the Florio family logo are sought by collectors today and are considered early examples of Italian industrial design. One room still shows the heavy iron doors of the cooling chambers where fresh fish was stored until processing.