Calasetta

Calasetta ( in tabarkinischem Ligurian Câdesédda, in Sardinian Cal ' s Sera ) is a municipality of the province of Carbonia -Iglesias in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy. The community has about 3,000 inhabitants.

Geography

Calasetta located in the southwest of Sardinia, on the island of Sant'Antioco. The municipality comprises the north-western third of the island that is otherwise managed by the neighboring community Sant'Antioco. The rolling countryside is dominated by Mediterranean Macchiavegetation. In the northeast, the municipality begins at the foothills of with its antenna masts highly visible mountain Sa Scrocca behind the village Cussorgia ( Cristo Ré ). From there runs in a wide arc a bay to the west, is located at the end at the top of a promontory of the port of Calasetta. In the southwest of the village close into three bays, the beaches are among the most famous tourist attractions of the municipality. The beaches are called Sotto Torre, La Salina and Spiaggia Grande, sometimes they are simply numbered in this order (1st to 3rd beach ). Behind the Spiaggia Grande follows in a southerly direction a rugged cliff, in which only at Cala Lunga a first deeper indentation with a small beach beach opens. Here ends also the coast near the town Calasetta. The same subsequent, somewhat larger bay " Cala Sapone " ( Cal'e Saboni ) already belongs to the municipality Sant'Antioco. The population is concentrated in Calasetta, in Cussorgia and to the beaches called. The hinterland is in the north of the community still dominated by agriculture (especially vineyards), in the south it is almost deserted.

The island Sant'Antioco, together with the neighboring island of San Pietro and several smaller islands Sulcis the archipelago that forms his hand to the opposite coastal areas of the main island of Sardinia, the landscape Sulcis. Calasetta and its neighboring towns as Carloforte and Sant'Antioco provide well- sheltered harbors.

History

Calasetta has as its neighbor Carloforte a special story, both places with Liguria and Tunisia connects more than Sardinia. In 1542 a few families from Pegli near Genoa on the island of Tabarka settled, which is today in Tunisia, near the border with Algeria. There, the Genoese noble family Lomellini had received a fishing and commercial concession. Immigrants devoted to Tabarka mainly the coral diving. They came through trade soon to wealth and prestige, but had to then more and more aggressive competitors and pirates resist. Finally, the corals yield subsided.

1720 Sardinia came to the House of Savoy in Turin, whose continental possessions, together with the island formed the Kingdom of Sardinia. King Charles Emmanuel III. offered the emigrating Tabarkinern to colonize the island of San Pietro in the southwest of Sardinia, what these 1738 assumptions. 1741 occupied the Bey of Tunis, the island of Tabarka and enslaved the remaining inhabitants there. Charles Emmanuel III. reached for the release of many of these slaves who were also located on San Pietro, where to the main town in honor of King Carlo Forte ( " Charles the Strong " ) had appointed. Others were settled by Spain on the island of Nueva Tabarca in Alicante. Some families who had remained in relative freedom in Tunisia, were allowed to settle in 1770 on the uninhabited northwestern part of the island of Sant'Antioco. Here the Savoy had built on a hill from 1756 to 1757 a fortress-like watchtower ( Torre di Cala di Seta ), which should contribute to the defense of North African pirates. In this watchtower, opposite of Carloforte, the newcomers founded the village of Calasetta. The site was created by the Piedmontese military engineer and mining scientist Pietro Belly in a checkerboard pattern. In the early years settlers from the Piedmont were introduced, but soon left the place because of the difficult living conditions again. Services to the needy population in Calasetta acquired in his time Knight of the Order of Mauritius. Between 1837 and 1839 the parish church of San Maurizio was built for the then nearly 500 souls of the community. A renovation and expansion followed in 1956. In the church is a work of art by the German painter Jörg Schreyögg.

While the people in Carloforte mainly devoted to the sailing and fishing, Calasetta remained rather dominated by agriculture. Especially in linguistic and cultural terms, this had certain consequences. In Carloforte one remained on the seafaring with the Ligurian home more in touch than in Calasetta, which is why the Tabarchino in the development of the Ligurian language held closer than the Calasetta. In more rural and conservative Calasetta embossed on the one hand were more archaic forms of the Ligurian, on the other hand remained despite the mutual delimitation attitude between Sardinians and Tabarkinern on the island of Sant'Antioco not from the influences of the Sardinian language on the Tabarkinische Calasetta. In addition, both have survived in Calasetta and in Carloforte loanwords from Arabic. Around two- thirds of the inhabitants today are of Calasetta Tabarkinischen yet powerful. The tabarkinische dialect and culture is now under the special protection of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, and is taught in schools in the two municipalities Calasetta and Carloforte.

Economy

People in Calasetta are mainly in the service sector. During the summer, tourism is of great importance. Locally there are smaller hotels, there are holiday homes rented out, isolated, there is agritourism. At La Salina beach, a campsite is available. In Calasetta the Watchtower serves as a cultural center, next door there is a small museum of Contemporary Art.

Agriculture and fisheries ( tuna ) play only a minor role.

Traffic

The island is connected Sant'Antioco in the northeast over a bridge and an isthmus with the main island of Sardinia. From Calasetta leads from the state road SS 126 to the neighboring community Sant'Antioco and on to the provincial capitals Carbonia and Iglesias. From there, there are train connections to Cagliari, capital of Sardinia, located about 100 km east of Calasetta. From Carbonia Iglesias and Cagliari can be reached on motorway-type roads. From 1926 to 1974 Calasetta had a railway station. There was a narrow gauge railway with connections to Carbonia and Narcao siliqua according to the railways Decimomannu -Iglesias. The narrow-gauge railway leading from the harbor Calasetta after Cussorgia and along the north coast further to Sant'Antioco and from there to Carbonia or siliqua. Since the setting of the rail traffic on the narrow gauge lines buses.

The port of Calasetta is divided into two areas. To the west is the marina and fishing port. He is a frequent target for big game fisherman from Sicily Mazara del Vallo. To the east is the ferry port from where there are daily ferry connections to Carloforte. Prior to the eastern city limits Calasetta branches off a bypass road that leads directly along the coast to the harbor.

Partnerships

Calasetta has partnerships with communities and Pegli Arenzano in Liguria. In addition, the municipality since 2006 Honorary Member of the province of Genoa.

Personalities

• Pietro Belly († 1791 in Turin), military engineer and mining scientists, Calasetta put on
• Piero Biggio (1937-2007), papal diplomat
• Ermanno Leinardi (1933-2006), painter, most recently in Calasetta
• Bruno Rombi (* 1931), writer from Calasetta

Bundeswehr

At the Spiaggia Grande, the German Air Force for many years a camp. It is a care facility of the Tactical Training Command of the Air Force in Italy, which is located at the military airfield Decimomannu. From time to time use the camp and soldiers of the Army and Navy of the Armed Forces who practice in Sardinia. The German Training Command organized every year in summer in Piazza Belly, the central square in front of the town hall Calasetta, a celebration in which even specially arrived from Germany bands will perform.