Santa Gilla lagoon is located on the outskirts of Cagliari, practically outside the urban fabric. Who lives in the neighborhood of "Is Mirrionis" may take a ten minute drive to get there, and could take a healthy walk from the beautiful warm sun quest'Aprile. However, the conditional use is not a matter of form, as a real obligation. In fact, a question arises: why take a walk at the lagoon of Santa Gilla? What should inspire us to do so, given the conditions prevailing in still?
The term "lagoon" recalls the landscape values \u200b\u200band natural high quality, and with a bit of imagination you can imagine a quiet walk admiring the colors reflected in the pond, with colorful birds flying around free and joyous over our heads. Well. The Santa Gilla Lagoon is absolutely far from everything, because those who go will come across well latria scenarios, determined by the negligent attitude of the various administrations that have governed the capital of our island.
"The sunset in the lagoon of Santa Gilla is beautiful." The phrase I heard several people say, and I can confirm Whereas I see the sunset from my balcony over the lagoon. Nevertheless, I went to look around and near the conditions of the pond are quite different. Bags of trash filthy in every corner, pieces of rusted cars, pieces of burning plastic and consumed, aluminum part of some kind of terrible mechanical dial: in other words, degradation. I was able to touch, then, the desperate conditions in which there is one that "was" certainly an area of \u200b\u200bgreat value. Yes, because in S. Gilla there is evidence of Punic and Roman artefacts have been found to document the presence of none other than the Phoenicians. We know that during the Punic Carthaginians and the east coast of the same lagoon there was a great settlement, with a very important port for its trade relations with the Mediterranean. Not only
, Santa Gill is both qualitatively and quantitatively one of the most important wetlands in Sardinia. Under the Convention of Ramar was considered "wetland of international importance." What's more, our beloved lagoon is part of special lists, which should protect it from pollution and destructive from the work of that animal called man of war. Work began in 1921 when the remediation s'autorizzò the lagoon and the installation of a salt, which was activated in 1931. For the transportation of salt was made an inconceivable that the waterway linking the commercial port of Cagliari, and were greatly expanded the communications with the sea to promote the disposal of the floods. This involved an initial environmental changes, which worsened abruptly thereafter.
During the sixties the chemical and mechanical pump their own toxic waste in the lagoon, causing a real ecological disaster. At that time, in fact, the industrial areas were totally devoid of any sewage system, and we can easily assume the rate of harmful content in these discharges. That rate continued to rise due to the influx of the infamous Rio Cixerri, scriteriatamente used for the leaching of landfill mining. In addition, several urban centers (situated near Santa Gilla) poured their own urban sewage in the lagoon, contributing to aggravate a situation already fully compromised. In the seventies, the state of the lagoon was so compromised that forbade even the bathing of the people (of course, those who bathe in water should not have all the wheels into place).
In Sardinia, the Santa Gilla Lagoon is one of the worst environmental disasters that can be documented today. According to the latest tests carried out, there seems to be a slow improvement in conditions, with the return of animal species have disappeared from the area for some time. Internet sites dedicated to tourism enhances the beauty of the pond ... What a wonderful Santa Gilla will surprise, the tourists who come to admire the beauties of the Lagoon - Rubbish!
Vincent D'Ascanio
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