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On 11 August 1875, coming from the penal house of San Bartolomeo in Cagliari, thirty prisoners and seven prison guards landed on the solitary beach of Porto Sinzias, the south-eastern coast of Sardinia, penetrating with great difficulty the dense existing vegetation. Led by the Inspector General of prisons, Cavaliere Eugenio Cicognani, sent by the Ministry of the Interior, the handful of forced people, established the first residence, had the task of reclaiming the infected territory and giving new life to a territory now abandoned and uninhabited for 350 years . With the first works of hydraulic and agricultural reclamation, carried out by the first prisoners with great difficulty, but with the arrival of reinforcements came other forced, after a year according to Corriere di Sardegna already 'estimated the presence of 300 prisoners, mostly 'with work experience related to construction, was born' in 1877 on the promontory of Praidis between the two streams of Gutturu Frascu and Baccu Sa Figu, about 7 km from the landing, the residence of the forced.
On 11 August 1875, coming from the penal house of San Bartolomeo in Cagliari, thirty prisoners and seven prison guards landed on the solitary beach of Porto Sinzias, the south-eastern coast of Sardinia, penetrating with great difficulty the dense existing vegetation. Led by the Inspector General of prisons, Cavaliere Eugenio Cicognani, sent by the Ministry of the Interior, the handful of forced people, established the first residence, had the task of reclaiming the infected territory and giving new life to a territory now abandoned and uninhabited for 350 years . With the first works of hydraulic and agricultural reclamation, carried out by the first prisoners with great difficulty, but with the arrival of reinforcements came other forced, after a year according to Corriere di Sardegna already 'estimated the presence of 300 prisoners, mostly 'with work experience related to construction, was born' in 1877 on the promontory of Praidis between the two streams of Gutturu Frascu and Baccu Sa Figu, about 7 km from the landing, the residence of the forced.
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