Crop project: deep seismic exploration of the central mediterranean and italy presents and discusses new data ranging from alps to africa obtained by the crop project transcrustal seismic exploration of the mediterranean and italy . New lithospheric imagings of relevant importance for understanding disputed topics are provided. Alps apennines calabrian arc sicilian apennine maghrebian chain corso-sardinian block paleo-basins ionian alpine tethys neo-basins balearic and tyrrhenian are innovatively reconstructed. Provides new data from the alps to africa presents interpretation of the crop seismic network data offers a stepwise increase in information with new data for further studies