A journey to the roots of Stintino

Posted by Andrea Bazzoni May 12, 2010

represent an emotional journey for the reader, for Stintino a path through memory to find the roots, the rediscovery of colors and scents of their own country which this year celebrates 125 years.
are the two books "Stintino, postcards on the edge of the memory" of Ruby and Esmeralda Ughi and Salvatore "The time of memory, history, legends, documents Stintino - Volume 2" by Diana Mayor Antonio Stintino.
The two books, published the first printed by Edes and finished in December 2009, the second published by the Graphics Ltd and finished printing in March this year, were presented last Saturday in the council chamber in front of the City of Stintino to a large audience of Stintino. All who wish to retrace a journey back in time, the years of life on the island Asinara those of the founding of a small fishing village.
A "journey" that began from postcards of the book by Ruby and Ughi. 154 photographs in black and white and color into three thematic sections: the first show, through the postcards that portray the country, growth and development of Stintino and the second contains those that depict the natural landscape, the beach of the Hairy sea \u200b\u200boutside, and the third is dedicated to tuna Saline, the lives of fishermen during the months of the trap and phases of fisheries and the massacre. "A book that provides a reflection for images - said Attilio Mastino, rector of the University of Sassari - to start a discourse on the geography and history of a country located between mountains and sea, in search of a past close but still dark" .

Dig Stintino in the memory of Anthony's book Diana, which publishes interesting documents, some unpublished, that are part of the heritage of the archives of tuna Saline. Documents that bring to light the story of the Dawn Treader Leopold I "captured" by the network of the trap of Trabucato in 1926, or the interesting pamphlet written by the director of Saline tuna in 1949, Anthony Pence, on the township Stintino and its fishing. A volume, said the rector, shows "how the lives of Stintino is linked Asinara island on which the country is united by a kind of umbilical cord, which is primarily emotional rather than geographical." For
Attilio Mastino comes to light an extraordinary place, a country that recognizes the vital re-evaluates its monuments and archaeological heritage and ponders a policy of restoration. "Now - said the rector of the University of Sassari - Stintino find their history, past and looks to a future dynamic, with an openness and sensitivity to environmental related Asinara Park to be built together." For the university professor Eugenia
Tognotti the two books "are the result of the desire to rediscover the common roots," while the university professor Gabriella Mondardini the two books are different but similar in one thing that is "share the ability to have made via exploration of the roots, even future of Stintino.
"Two complementary books" called them Ninni Ravazza, editor of Cosedimare.com, and for which the book of postcards with Ruby and Ughi is an expression of "a memory that is perpetuated. The pictures have their own social value, are very important witness, sometimes the only one in the past. " The director of the online magazine has been said so deeply impressed by the book by Anthony Diana has called "an exceptional book from which, by reading the stories and documents are evident nostalgia and affection for the area in addition to that intimate relationship between the fisherman, the boat and their homes" .

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Stintino and the sea. Two books to remind

Attilio Mastino (President University of Sassari)

We are pleased to present this evening two volumes in Stintino, on the edge of the memory cards by Salvatore Sardinian Democratic Editrice Ruby and Esmeralda Ughi time and memory stories and legends documents Stintino, Mayor Antonio Diana printed from Porto Torres Pical graphic design.
Esmeralda Ughi and Salvatore Rubino read the landscapes, maritime tradition, the atmosphere of Stintino in pictures, inspiring true emotions, making re-emergence of hundreds of postcards through the colors of the sea, perfume, the taste of salt so many summers back in time. This emotional journey through memory cards, is the result of a long and passionate commitment of those who have patiently collected over the years lost so many images, glimpses of real life, landscapes, environments and people that tell the story of a community rich in tradition Civil and proud of its specific and unique identity. We see in these pages, scroll through the history of the country, the surrounding area between Cape Falcon, Cala Lupo, thighs of a woman in the sea outside, the trap saline, through the eyes of the viewer to the places popular with curiosity and surprise, with the desire to find evidence , to remember things already known, in search of hidden landscapes first in the heart. The authors wanted to extend this reflection to images, even in order to actually start a discourse on the geography and history of a country located between the mountains and the sea, on the northern edge of Sardinia, animated by stimulating cultural turmoil, searching for new information on a relatively near past, and yet we almost always dark.
First, the world of fishermen, which is done with boats, nets, crab pots, to marruffi, nurseries of lobsters, a material culture that you can understand and almost touching, but is also expressed through ritual Almost magical moments with ceremonial community, as the bloody slaughter of tuna or the work of canning fish or the solemn religious processions, that slowly are gatherings and celebrations, occasions when the community recognizes and finds herself starting from its roots. Just
roots Genoese (Camogli) here overlapped with the oldest acquaintances of fishermen and pirates in the myth that recalls such as the Isle of Heracles, Asinara, the island filled with great seafaring traditions, for lively a popular religion for unparalleled and beautiful landscapes and natural resources. The island or the island that there will be, was also identified in the collective imagination of the ancients as the starting point for the Greek shipping in the direction of columns in the Mediterranean and Atlantic routes: I think we should Ughi to Esmeralda in the past some of the most beautiful written with other colleagues at the University of Sassari on the island of Heracles, the marks left by the god and the myth related to him along the road to civilization of the West Mediterranean. Signs that still speak to us. Just Asinara island at the end of the eighteenth century the Savoy authorization (coinciding with the birth of the Greek colony of Montresta) development of a village in Cala d'Oliva, the starting place for the fishermen involved in tuna fishing: the exiles here Ligurian found a homeland.
After the establishment of the penal colony, hence the village of fishermen and shepherds was forced into a painful exodus and moved on land, in the same place where he had placed the Antonine Itinerary For Herculem Roman road station on the road salt, on the outskirts of the colony of Turris Libisonis, a short distance from the salt mines and traps by quell'ovile Ercoli which miraculously has preserved the memory in the name of God. Stintino was founded about one hundred ten years ago with a burden of nostalgia, regrets, resentments, especially forced to overcome a thousand hardships and difficulties, up to twenty years ago to the longed-creation of an independent town of Sassari: on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary ceremony , August 8, 2008, I was there, we saw how the community rightly intends to maintain a relationship with the island and the nearby National Park, which celebrates its 15 years of life. The life of Stintino is inextricably linked Asinara Island, to which the country is united by a kind of umbilical cord, which is more than geographical primarily emotional, made up of memories and records, a link that retrieves the vacuum created in ' Neverland but we want that in future there is, I believe that this relationship so intense, unique identity and represents an added value, a valuable antidote for a territory currently invested by the wind of a building development that threatens to overwhelm a community still fragile and eager to receive recognition and legitimacy.

I must say I was moved by the simplicity with which Diana Antonio in the second volume we are presenting today has collected documents throughout the history of Asinara and Stintino, drawing the bow of the trap, rebuilding and stories: the story of the Dawn Treader Leopold I, almost a century ago still entangled in the nets of tuna off the tip of Stintino Trabucato Asinara; Piana island geography, the activities in the folds of the shepherds, breeding, mushroom picking, hunting wrecks such as the barges in the French army arrived mysteriously in Li Bashciacci Plain on the west coast. The cipher of tuna Saline. The urban evolution Li Calanques de l'Isthintini, the original Savoy Cala. The crimes like the killing of the sailors of the ship that was usually stop in Fornelli, denounced by the son of the commander. The re-reading the diary of Antonio Pence, director for 50 years of tuna Saline. Today the country is on the way to a more promising future tourism, recognized as a sophisticated and original place to stay open to a nautical tourism and elite, a unique place to spend the holidays but especially a vital and dynamic country, which finds its past and rediscover its deep maritime culture, their own carpentry, recognize their own monuments to start from the towers and the English original zoning plan, also re-evaluates the built heritage of industrial architecture, not to mention the points of departure Asinara island, the monastery of St. Andrew and camaldolese Castellaccio Punta stoves built by the Malaspina or abandoned by Doria, but on the eve of the exodus to Stintino . Today we must start from the new policy of environmental restoration that reclassify the coastal road towards the hotel building and Hairy, a country that we would recover its relations with the Asinara, but also with Genoa to Porto Torres and Sassari. Even with the university, which Stintino had defended and supported financially in times of crisis and difficulty.
The Museum of tuna born in 1995 had indicated a road. Now these books want to build the premises for Stintino recover its history and its past and
represent a major step towards building the community dimension of the near future we imagine more and more rich and dynamic, with a strong environmental awareness and new related to the Park to be built together.