Istituto Comprensivo Statale San Gavino Monreale _ Sardinia _Italy

February Activity:

Pupils collect informations about naturalistic beauty of its region and make proposals to create naturalistic stays in places of interest

Dear friends of Bucharest and Granollers, we propose a tour of the southern coast of Sardinia from Villasimius to Chia. Information, including photographic, it relates Cagliari with some of its monuments, Molentargius and Santa Gilla, The Poetto of Cagliari and Quartu, Marina Piccola, Nora, Chia, the beaches of Torre delle Stelle, Solanas and Villasimius

Flamingos in Molentargius pond.

Within the metropolitan area of Cagliari, where 400,000 people live, there is the regional nature park Molentargius - Saline.

Cagliari means "Castle", in Sardinia language we say "Casteddu". If you visit the Castle and you start your tour from "Porta Cristina" in ther north, you can see: - on your left "lo stagno di Molentargius"

The view on your righ: there is the other pond named "Lo stagno di Santa Gilla"

In the South of the Castle, a view from the Bastione - The port of CAGLIARI

A big poster in the laboratory of the Regional park

In the past "Molentargius and Santa Gilla" were very important. In "Santa Gilla" there was the old town of Cagliari. In Molentargius salt was a source of income and many foreign people conquered the city to get salt and salt trade (Carthaginians, Romans, Spaniards, Pisani, Piedmont).

Last Friday the class II D and II B visited Cagliari, Molentargius and the Regional Center of environmental education sustainability "Molentaqrgius". We observed in the microscopes and we saw a lot of small insects and animals of the pond. Some teachers spoke about the history of Salt.

This is the didactic center of the Regional park of Molentargius

Among the saltwort and the rushes you'll be able to see swamp hens, dwarf herons and short-eared owls. Near the park you can also see beautiful herons and flamingos (the king of the lagoon or "genti arrubia") flying in their magnificent way

Salt

Marina Piccola