"Marineri culu infustu": this is the reason for the nickname of the inhabitants of the Marina
The port district was once called Bagnaria, then La Pola. It was inhabited mainly by foreigners, shopkeepers and, of course, fishermen"Marineri Culu Infustu" is a nickname that was attributed to the inhabitants of one of the historic districts of Cagliari, the Marina district. We have seen the meaning of the nicknames of the other historic districts:
- The inhabitants of the Castle were "piscia tintèris" or "piscia arrenconis"
- The inhabitants of Villanova: "biddanoesu inform Christu"
- The inhabitants of Stampace: “stampaxinu cùcuru cotu”
Only the fourth historic district is missing: the Marina district of Cagliari . A neighborhood that has changed several names.
In the past, in 1100, at the time of the Pisans, the neighborhood was called "Bagnaria". Immediately after the Pisans it took the name of "La Pola" to then arrive at today's name: La Marina.
It is the first neighborhood you see in Cagliari when you arrive in the Sardinian capital by sea: it is located in front of the port. It was a district that in the past was mostly inhabited by shopkeepers and foreigners, like all port areas, and obviously by fishermen, who had been given the nickname of "marineri culu infustu".
What does it mean? From Sardinian into Italian it means "sailor to sit in the water", to give a puritanical translation, as if to underline the fact that fishermen, for reasons related to their profession, spend a good part of their lives at sea: they have one foot on land but the other foot, mostly, in the sea.
(Unioneonline)
