of Punta Alga, decided by the emperor Carlo V to stop Saracenis forays, entailed the end of its flowering.
After that, just after two centuries things started to go better in Marsala. At the end of 1700an arrival from the sea changed again the future of the town: the landing of the English John Woodhouse who "invented" the wine marsala. Woodhouse, in fact, considered the wine made by the local farmers in these lands rareocali. Characherized of a natural high alcoholic gradation, but Marsalese wine wasn't suitable for transport: to obviate the problem Woodhouse tryed to add alcohol with good gradation to the wine, and he got a good result,in fact in this way he guaranteed its stability. So, he started its exportation and later even the admiral Nelson, one of its most famous clients, and its fleet could taste Marsala. The wine so "invented" by John Woodhouse was able to face victoiously, expecially in the dry version, with Mader and with Porto, very popular among subject of The Queen. It's thank to Woodhouse the Marsalese economic explosion and also other infrastructural buildings (including the current Marsalese harbour of Margitello), financed by their money.
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On the 11th may 1860 the landing in Marsala of Giuseppe Garibaldi took place, after that the unification of Italy took place.
In the history of Marsala there another 11 maggio, a sad memory for it people, the one of 1943: an English bombardment on the town-centre caused al lot of victims and defaced permanently its precious baroque centre. Right for the sacrifice of a lot of people Marsala got the Medal for civil value
