{"id":4794,"date":"2023-10-03T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turismobaunei.eu\/services\/ispuligedenie-cala-mariolu"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:25:47","slug":"ispuligedenie-cala-mariolu","status":"publish","type":"cpt_services","link":"https:\/\/www.turismobaunei.eu\/en\/services\/ispuligedenie-cala-mariolu","title":{"rendered":"“Ispuligedenie” – Cala Mariolu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIspulegidenie\u201d \u2013 Cala Mariolu<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”small” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]Between the flat rock that marks the border of \u201cCala dei Gabbiani\u201d and the sheer cliff that limits the \u201cIspuligidenie forest\u201d in the north, is one of today’s most famous and popular beaches on the coast of Baunei. This beach, about 300 metres in length, divided into two parts by a big rock used as a mooring by boats carrying tourists, is now known by the dual name of \u201cIspuligidenie – Cala Mariolu\u201d. The two names are explained by the curious history of this stretch of coastline and in a sense admirably summarise a past in which the stories of herdsmen and fishermen intertwine. First of all, the name \u201cIspuligidenie\u201d precedes \u201cCala Mariolu\u201d: this is because the former was given by the Baunei herdsmen who roamed inland, while the later was imposed by the Ponzese fishermen who settled in Cala Gonone and Arbatax in the early twentieth century. \u201cIspuligidenie\u201d comes from \u201csu pulige de nie\u201d, which in Baunesis Sardinian literally means \u201csnow fleas\u201d, a poetic metaphor used by the local herdsmen to define the white pebbles smoothed by the waves that make up the beach and that probably, later on, came to mean the entire forest overlooking the beach. \u201cCala Mariolu\u201d, on the other hand, more prosaically, means \u201cthief\u2019s cove\u201d and this definition was given by fishermen from Ponza, who in their dialect that is derived from Neapolitan would call monk seals (which once used to frequent this part of the coast assiduously) \u201co mariuolo\u201d (\u201cthe thief\u201d), because they used to \u201csteal\u201d fish directly from the nets cast from the boats. Shortly afterwards, the term was given a Sardinian flavour by adding a \u201cu\u201d at the end, and from then on \u201cIspuligidenie\u201d also began to be called \u201cCala Mariolu\u201d. The Ponzese who renamed the Ispuligidenie beach had a lasting effect on the seafaring history of the coast between Arbatax and Cala Gonone. They came aboard special boats, called \u201cmbruchi\u00e8lle\u201d, with which they fished for lobsters which they would then transport, still alive, up to Marseille. These skilled fishermen with unmistakably Neapolitans surnames such as Aversano, Vitiello and Morl\u00e8, having departed from an archipelago twenty miles off the coast of Lazio, brought the art of fishing to the coast of Baunei, where in 1834 Angius noted that \u201cno one (…) ever dedicated themselves to sea fishing (…)\u201d. Curiously, in 1959, over a century after Angius\u2019 words, a woman from Baunei called Speranza Maddanu, who was married to a Ponzese fisherman, Giovanni Aversano, opened the first seafood restaurant of the entire Ogliastra region in Arbatax.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ icons_position=”left”][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”custom_widgets_2″][vc_empty_space hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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