Carloforte

Coral fishers of Ligurian descent, who had spent two centuries on the Tunisian island of Tabarka, founded Carloforte in 1738 and named it after King Charles Emmanuel III. The town climbs a hill from its harbour on San Pietro island, off south-west Sardinia, and its people still speak tabarchino, a Ligurian dialect. Its cooking blends Ligurian and Tunisian influences, celebrated each May at the Girotonno festival.

Highlights

• The Castello quarter, ringed by walls built from 1806 against pirate raids
• Madonna dello Schiavo church, built for a statue found by enslaved islanders near Tunis
• Torre San Vittorio, a museum of the island's history
• The old tuna-fishing buildings of the tonnara at La Punta
• Capo Sandalo lighthouse, from the 1880s, on the far side of the island

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