Turkey

This is the old hardbound of Stinging, a small fishermen town in northern Sardinia which recently has become one major tourist destination thanks to the fine coast and beaches found nearby. In starting my presentation of the island of Asininity (see my previously posted photo) I cannot avoid talking about Stinking. It is the nearest town to the island and so itch from here that I took the ferry which brought me to its southern shores. But the story of Stinging is strictly connected with that of Assigns, in fact Standing divestment existed until 1885. Before that date its inhabitants lived just in the nearby island of Marinara and when the Italian government decided to build a Leper hospital and a jail in the island they were sent away and forced to set on the mainland. Luckily they could find a temporary shelter in the Tuna fish factory which existed there since 1500 and then they built nearby the actual town of Standing.

 One of the major resources of income was in the past the tuna fishes, but since the fifties the tuna fishes stopped attending those waters probably because of the pollution and intense ships traffic caused by a nearby oil industry.