Once upon a time, from those slits-embrasures set in the white granite cliffs of Is Mortorius, on the coast of Quartu, large telescopes and precision rangefinders looked out. They aimed at targets and enemy distances, long and deep eyes to spot all those who looked out over the Golfo degli Angeli. In '43, Second World War, from those positions they fired at Safari, the English submarine that looked out in front of Cala Regina. No shots were spared even against the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the twin-engine fighter planes in service with the powerful American air force.
Sea Outpost
The "Carlo Faldi" Battery, built in 1936 on the ruins of the ancient Tonnara, was one of the "Fronte a mare" outposts of Cagliari, a lookout against raiders and invaders. Now it is a ruin, close to the more Nuragic lookout located further upstream, that nuraghe Diana that dominated and controlled that proscenium for millennia. Getting there is not impossible, just take the tortuous, but still panoramic, road that traces the coast from Cagliari to Villasimius. The abandoned artifacts mark the degradation of a territory as exclusive as it is abandoned to itself, as if the scenario that overlooks did not deserve a mention.
Defenses & Ruins
If you climb to the highest point of the ancient Batteria you understand the reason for that observation point: the horizon projects the gaze along the entire "bay" that everyone has always called the Gulf of Angels. Now that the defenses have been extinguished by history, on that stretch of sea, however, the new "invaders" are reappearing, ready to occupy without any resistance that body of water that goes from Is Mortorius to Poetto, from Giorgino to Nora, from Santa Margherita di Pula to Chia, capable of sticking into that sea the beauty of 218 steel skyscrapers, 300 meters high and potentially up to 380, almost like a hundred floors in height. A devastation not only announced, but pursued with blows of projects and companies, all put in place with the aim of making the slot machine of the billion-dollar incentives at stake on offshore wind power spin out of all proportion.
