Fertilia

Small town of two thousand inhabitants, Fertilia was the last 'city of the Duce' on the island. Planned by the Fascist regime as an 'ideal city' alter ego of the Catalan city of Alghero, it was built, after Mussolinia (later Arborea) and Carbonia, so as to 'Italianise' the old community guardian of Catalan language and culture.

Today a village between the sea and the lagoon in the north-west of Sardinia, Fertilia preserves the memory of singular events, in its territory and in its name.

A decade of land reclamation and migration saw, in the 1930s, the work of the Ferrarese (then Sardinian) colonisation authority, which, through policies of memory and removal, overlapping cultures and land transformations, sought to make the new city the hub of the territory, as an alternative to Alghero, of which it is now a hamlet.

In fact, Fertilia has always been linked to a purely agricultural and maritime economy and, only in recent years has it become the 'tourist port' of Sardinia, thanks to the airport, five kilometres from the village.