Until now, the processes of dialogue carried out in the Mediterranean have begun from a state of opening to the Other. For this to be possible in the 21st century, in the middle of the numerous conflicts suffered by the region, we must look back and understand our historical past better. Only in this way can we understand the uselessness of war, which has not ceased to occur on the shores of the Mediterranean since Antiquity. At the end of this era, around the 7th century, Mare Nostrum started to become the arena of a long doctrinal debate between religions, which was at the same time economic and social. Thus was born the modern Mediterranean, as a territory of a semiotic battle that opened a new historical process around the 10th century, marked by the incorporation of new civilisations today fully integrated into the region.

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