Teulada (Italy) - Teulada (Italia)

Teulada
Sunset at Capo Teulada
StateItaly
RegionSardinia
TerritorySulcis
Altitude50 m a.s.l.
Surface246.19 km²
Inhabitants3.459 (2019)
Name inhabitantsTeuladini
Prefix tel 39 070
POSTAL CODE09019
Time zone UTC 1
PatronOur Lady of Carmel (July 16)
Position
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Teulada is a citizen of the Southern Sardinia, in the province of Southern Sardinia.

To know

Geographical notes

Teulada is located in Sulcis, straddling the coast and the mountains. It borders with Domus de Maria, Masainas, Piscinas, Chaff (Cagliari), Sant'Anna Arresi is Santadi.

Background

Torre del Budello
Capo Malfatano beach
Tuerredda beach

Prehistory and ancient history

The territory of Teulada has been frequented by man since the dawn of the Nuragic era (Bonnanaro culture), as the many nuraghi scattered throughout the municipal territory and the remains of a fortification on the Isola Rossa seem to testify. The Phoenicians and the Punic later settled on the coast as evidenced by the remains of the Punic tophet in Malfatano, on the islet in front of Tuerredda and the port of Melqart (now submerged), also in Malfatano.

The first location of the inhabited area should be assumed behind the ancient Kersonesus (Chersonesum Promontorium), or the isthmus of today's Capo Teulada, where a Roman military settlement seems to have existed to guard the two bays of Cala Piombo and Porto Zafferano. It is likely that this location lasted until Roman times, when the town took the name of Tegula, which probably documents the production of terracotta in Roman times, attested among other things by the recent discovery of a kiln near Tuerredda.

Medieval and modern history

In the Middle Ages Teulada, refounded near the church of Sant'Isidoro, in the plain of Tuerra, in a more internal area, became part of the Giudicato of Cagliari, in the curatoria of Sulcis, remaining in its sphere of political and cultural influence until mid-thirteenth century, when the territory was assigned to the della Gherardesca and in particular to Count Ugolino and his heirs. It then ended up being occupied by the municipality of Pisa. From 1355 the villa was incorporated into the Aragonese kingdom of Sardinia and granted as a fief to Bartolomeo Ces-Pujades.

When the Aragonese convened the first parliament in Cagliari in 1355, Teulada also sent his representatives there. Due to the barbarian incursions from the sea and epidemics, the town depopulated but was re-founded once again in the seventeenth century in an even more internal area, where there were some houses built around the rural church of San Francesco, and where the town is currently located . Precisely because of the pirate raids, coastal watchtowers were built along the entire coast of the Gulf of Teulada, as well as throughout Sardinia, which still exist today but cannot be visited (except for a small part that of the Budello). These are the towers of Malfatano, Piscinnì, Porto Budello, Porto Scudo and Cala Piombo. In 1568 the town formed a barony, granted as a fief to Antonio Catalan; subsequently, by means of marriage, the lordship passed to the Sanjust, to whom it was redeemed in 1839 with the abolition of the feudal system, for which it became a municipality administered by a mayor and a municipal council. The last feudal lord was Don Carlo Sanjust Amat.

Contemporary history

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the town's economy was essentially agricultural, and there was a lot of manpower that served the Sulcis mines.

During the Second World War, in the waters south of the coast, the battle of Capo Teulada took place between the British and Italian fleets, which ended without winners and one of the last naval battles in the Mediterranean. After the world wars, the country reached the peak of the inhabitants, but then the very strong emigration depopulated it up to the current 4,000.

In the 1950s 7,500 hectares of the municipality were expropriated to sell them to the NATO military base from which a long dispute with the Municipality of Teulada arose because according to some the NATO base would prevent the country from economically exploiting the best part of the coast.

Today Teulada is a country that seeks not without difficulty to get out of the crisis and does so through quality and non-mass tourism, the combination of sea-mountains and the splendid southern coast.

How to orient yourself

Fractions

Capo Malfatano tower
  • Foxi
  • Genniomus
  • Gutturu Saidu
  • Is Carillus
  • Malfatano
  • Masoni de Monti
  • Masoni de Susu
  • Matteu
  • Lost it
  • Perdalonga
  • Sa Portedda
  • On de Is Seis
  • About Fonnesu

Islands

  • Islets of Ferraglione
  • Campionna Island
  • Island of Pavilions


How to get

By plane

  • 1 Cagliari-Elmas Airport (IATA: CAG) (Located in Elmas, 70 km from Teulada), ☎ 39 070 211211, fax: 39 070 241013. L'Cagliari-Elmas airport is served by Ryanair with Milan-Bergamo, Treviso, Cuneo, Bologna, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino and some European cities, from Alitalia with Rome-Fiumicino and Milan-Linate, from Easyjet, Volotea and other airlines that operate national flights and with Europe. Cagliari-Elmas Airport on Wikipedia Cagliari-Elmas Airport (Q139983) on Wikidata 

By car

  • From Cagliari take the SS 195 and continue until Teulada.
  • From the north and center of Sardinia take the SS 131 Carlo Felice, then, when you arrive at the gates of Cagliari, take the exit "Pula-Quartu Sant'Elena and continue towards Pula, then, take the SS 195. Continue to Teulada.

On boat

From the port of Cagliari.

By bus


How to get around


What see

Church of the Madonna del Carmelo
Church of San Francesco
Church and tower of Sant'Isidoro

Churches

  • 1 Parish church of the Madonna del Carmelo. 
  • Parish church of San Giovanni Battista. 
  • Church of San Francesco d'Assisi. 
  • 2 Church of Sant'Isidoro. Country church. 

Sculptural monuments

Of considerable interest is the presence of dozens of marble and granite sculptures in all the squares and crossroads of the town and in the neighboring hamlets, the result of the International Meeting of Stone Sculpture that took place in the town from the 1980s to the early years of the new Millennium. These also include the bas-reliefs of the Via Crucis (in an anti-clockwise path through the streets around the Church of the Madonna del Carmine, in order: via XI febbraio, via Lamarmora, via Vittorio Emanuele, via Umberto I), as well as those dedicated to St. Francesco, outside the church of the same name.

Civil architectures

Military architectures

  • 4 Torre del Budello. 
  • 5 Tower of Sant'Isidoro. 

Archaeological sites

Nuraghe Sa Perdaia
  • 6 Nuraghe Sa Perdaia. Nuraghe Sa Perdaia on Wikipedia nuraghe Sa Perdaia (Q20009751) on Wikidata 

Beaches

  • 7 Capo Malfatano beach. 
  • 8 Tuerredda beach. 
  • 9 Perdalonga beach. 
  • 10 Porto Zafferano beach. Simple icon time.svgAccessible only by sea and at certain times of the year as it is located inside the NATO military base. 
  • 11 Porto Tramatzu beach. 
  • 12 Porto Pino beach (It is located inside the NATO base and is partly shared with Sant'Anna Arresi). 
  • 13 S'Ottixeddu beach (Americans Beach). Simple icon time.svgOpen to the public in the summer as it is located inside the NATO military base. 
  • 14 Campionna beach. 
  • 15 Piscinnì beach. 


Events and parties

Sa tracca on the occasion of the patronal feast on July 16
  • Rites of Holy Week. Simple icon time.svgIn March or April. The various processions of Holy Thursday take place, the via crucis on Friday morning and Su scravamentu in the evening (or the deposition of Christ from the cross) and then conclude with S'incontru on Easter Sunday. This last event sees a double procession starting from two different points of the town, and then meeting in the center of the town (in via Cagliari, between piazza Fontana and piazza Mazzini), one (the one that starts from the Church of the BV del Carmelo) with the statue of the Madonna, the other (the one that starts from the parish of San Giovanni Battista) with the statue of the risen Christ. Once the two groups are reunited, the cunfradas that support the two statues perform ritual movements, and then make Christ lift the mourning veil of the Madonna. There follow the shots, the bells and the release of two doves; finally the procession gathers and goes up towards the Church of the Madonna del Carmine. 
  • Sant'Isidoro. Simple icon time.svgIn May and August. The procession starts from Teulada to reach the church of Sant'Isidoro, located in the locality of Tuerra, a fertile plain (in a context - the Teuladine - mainly hilly) in which the town was located before the seventeenth-century repopulation. In a second moment the statue of the saint is brought back to the village, transported by Sa tracca, an ox cart decorated for the festival. Since this is the most heartfelt holiday, the participation of numerous countries from all over Sardinia is natural, which with their different traditional costumes make the procession of August 21 an attraction also from a tourist point of view. 
  • Our Lady of Carmel. Simple icon time.svgJuly 16. Patronal feast. The procession crosses Teulada in a long way, in which various folk groups also participate, albeit to a much lesser extent than in Sant'Isidoro. 


What to do


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Where to eat

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Safety

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How to keep in touch

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Around

Theater of Nora


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