The waters of the port of Sorrento serve as a marine cemetery.
This popular destination for tourists has collected the corpse of a huge whale, discovered overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday by the Italian coastguard.
Found dead at depth a few days earlier by divers, she could be the mother of a baby whale also seen near the coast.
Stranded and injured in the middle of the harbor, the child had ended up disappearing offshore.
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The Coast Guard towed the large mammal by sea to Naples, where it will be autopsied by specialists in marine biology to try to explain the causes of its death.