Stintino ( Sassarese : Isthintini , Sardinian : Istintìnu ) is a coastal comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia , located about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cagliari and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Sassari .
7-596: Stintino is located on the peninsula of the same name, running from Nurra plain to the Asinara Island , part of the Asinara National Park , for which Stintino is the nearer embarkment place. The municipality borders with Sassari and its northernmost point, a cape in which is located the town, is in front of the Asinara, which belongs to the municipality of Porto Torres . Stintino was founded on
14-517: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nurra The Nurra is a geographical region in the northwest of Sardinia , Italy . It is the second-largest plain of the island, located between the towns of Sassari , Porto Torres and Alghero . It covers a surface of 700 km and is bounded by the Sardinian Sea on the west and by the Gulf of Asinara on the north. Nurra
21-536: The Crown of Aragon in the 14th century. This was depopulated the area, and in 1347 many of the villages were reduced to ghost towns, and the remaining ones suffered equally in the subsequent war between Aragon and the Giudicato of Arborea . In 1391, it was again invaded by Brancaleone Doria. In 1427, it was formally given to the free commune of Sassari, but was still subject to raids from North-African corsairs. There
28-642: The drought and to the presence of malaria , eliminated only in the 20th century. In the Middle Ages Nurra was a curatoria in the Giudicato di Torres , rich with salt mills and silver mines. From the 12th century it was owned by the Branca branch of the Doria family of Genoa, who had acquired it at the extinction of the giudicato family and kept it until the end between the Republic of Genoa and
35-532: The 14th of August 1885, when the Italian Government decided to use the nearby isle, Isola dell'Asinara , as a quarantine sea aid station and penal colony. This penal colony was then turned into a maximum security prison from 1970 until 1998. At the time, the isle was inhabited by 45 families, dedicated to agricultural, farming, and fishing activities. These families gave origin to the villages of Cala Reale, Fornelli, and Cala d'Oliva but had had to leave
42-591: The isle following the decision of the Government The families used the few resources they were given from the government to create the new comune. A main piazza called 'Piazza dei 45' is named after these 45 original families It is a popular seaside resort and is provided with three tourist ports: Porto Mannu (with 305 boat places), Marina di Stintino (160 boat places) and Porto Minore (110 boat places). [REDACTED] Media related to Stintino at Wikimedia Commons This Sardinia location article
49-577: Was once an important mining center, with Argentiera being the principal village, though today it is a ghost town. The Nurra, before the works of land reclamation initiated under Fascism (which were also continued in after World War II by the ETFAS, Ente Trasformazione Fondiaria Agricola Sarda), and despite being next to one of the most populated areas of Sardinia, has one of the lowest population densities in Italy , with 5 inhabitants per km , primarily, due to
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