The cameras arrive from the United Kingdom, to film and report in the places of Benjamin Piercy, the Welsh engineer who designed and built the railway line in Sardinia . A journey between Macomer and Badde Salighes, where the history of the railways and those who built them, in the second half of the 1800s, is retraced.

This is the initiative for which the cultural association "Benjamin Piercy" is the protagonist, in collaboration with the program "Great Continental Raiwaj Jouneys", (the great continental railway journeys), of the BBC, the largest and most authoritative radio and television publisher in the United Kingdom and the oldest national broadcaster in the world. An initiative sponsored by the Union of Municipalities of Marghine and the Municipality of Bolotana. On September 19, as part of the visit to Sardinia of the television crew of the United Kingdom, for a report on the railways, but above all on Benjamin Piercy and the villa of Badde Salighes (villa Piercy), to talk about the role played by Benjamin Piercy himself, in the design and construction of the railways in Sardinia.

Filming will be done both inside and outside the ancient villa, immersed in the greenery of Badde Salighes. A TV series that will be broadcast in various parts of the world, (in Italy the reference channel is Rai5). The director is Michael Portillo, a well-known face in Great Britain, former Minister of Defense and Railways, during the government of Margaret Thatcher. Collaborating for the part concerning the Italian language, the president of the cultural association "Benjamin Piercy", Mario Bussa, while for the part in English will be Giovanni Fiori, director of the university library of Sassari. The initiative also involves Macomer, where, next to the station, the building that was the home in Sardinia of Benjamin Piercy, the old hotel, now a ruin, where personalities of Italian history and literature and great travellers stayed, resists degradation and abandonment.

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