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The Savoy tower
The Calasetta tower was built between March 1756 and June 1757, in the midst of the Savoy era before the foundation of Calasetta (1770).
The master plan created by the engineer Pietro Belly (1770) specifies that it is the plan of the village to be built on the island of Sant’Antioco near the Cala di Seta Tower.
For the construction of the tower, materials present on site (stones and sand) were used; the lime was brought from Porto Paglia.
From other nearby locations (probably the Matzaccara area or the island of San Pietro) lighter stones than the local trachyte were taken and transported to the site, to be used for the vault.
Since the men hired on the island of Sant’Antioco itself would not have been sufficient, nor would it have been appropriate to divert others from agricultural work, unemployed workers from Carloforte were hired.
The direction of the works was entrusted to a certain Engineer Solerj, who probably also carried out the project.
With a truncated cone shape, it generally repeats the pattern of the numerous towers that are found at more or less regular intervals along the coasts of Sardinia. It has a diameter of about 9 m at the base and a height of about 12 m; the thickness of the perimeter walls varies from 0.70 m at the top to 2.80 m at the bottom.
The original entrance is located about 5 m from the ground.
The interior, ventilated and illuminated by slits (one remains today, the others have been transformed into real windows), is divided into three rooms: a large semicircular entrance, which communicates with two rooms behind half the size of the previous one.
A brick staircase, obtained inside the thickness of the wall, allows access to the terrace (parade ground).
A frame (round) made of stone other than trachyte to better highlight it, now partly destroyed, constitutes the only decorative element on the outside.
Access to the tower was allowed by a sort of drawbridge that was operated from the inside.
The purpose of the “Cala di Seta” tower, like the older one in Portoscuso, was to control the Canale di San Pietro, to defend the town of Carloforte and, later, the town and population of Calasetta from attacks by Barbary pirates of the tuna fisheries.
From the reports drawn up during the inspections to which the towers of the Kingdom of Sardinia were periodically subjected, we know that an Alcaide (tower commander) served in the tower, under whose orders, at different times, there were from three to sixteen soldiers.
The tower was equipped with weapons and ammunition, including two caliber 8 iron cannons.
In 1875 the Municipality of Calasetta purchased the tower and the surrounding state land.
During the First and Second World Wars, the building was restored several times. A last careful restoration, carried out in the early 1980s, brought to light the ground floor, originally filled with sand and debris.
The room has the natural surface of the rock as a floor, from which a central pillar rises, giving rise to three majestic arches. Leaning against the side wall is the rainwater cistern, whose mouth is on the upper floor.
An artificial opening allows you to enter this room from the outside.
Once a military building and in more recent times a restaurant, the ground floor of the tower is currently home to an archaeological museum managed by the Macc Foundation, the same one that manages the Calasetta Museum of Contemporary Art. The room on the upper floor is used for ceremonies and temporary exhibitions.
A silent witness to all the sad and happy events of the people of Calasetta since the beginning, it is considered the symbol of the town and for this reason it is represented in the banner of the Municipality. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/29RwSKtZng2BPSVk/
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