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The Beach Of San Giovanni<\/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]In Baunei and Santa Maria Navarrese, the beach between the Spanish Tower and the marina is called “Spiaggia di San Giovanni”(St. John\u2019s beach). This pebble beach, a few hundred metres in length and flanked by a cane field that provides early afternoon shade during the hottest hours of the day, is characterised by a rocky bottom. The reason the beach was named after St. John is unknown, but it is known that there was a fresh water spring few metres from the beach (nowadays, the spring has been buried, following the construction of the touristic harbour) called \u201csa funtana de Santu Giuanni\u201d in Sardinian. That this cove just north of the Spanish Tower was used by boats that sailed along the coast of Ogliastra for centuries is also confirmed by the fact that among the elders of Baunei, the beach is still known by the name \u201cPortu Santu Giuanni\u201d. In the past, the name probably referred mostly to another beach further north, which ended under the rocky promontory of \u201cSa Cadrea\u201d, and stretched for about two hundred metres (to a bend where a clearing was once created to house the boatyards for the marina). In the \u201cGeographical Description of Sardinia\u201d by Giuseppe Cossu from Cagliari, published in Genoa in 1799, on the pages which outline the characteristics \u201cof the Levante coast\u201d, there is mention of \u201cthe little port of St. John with a circle of three small reefs, so that the tip of Santa Maria Navaresa (sic) is surrounded by rocks\u201d (…). A few decades after Cossu\u2019s description, Angius also defines the cove north of the tower as a \u201cport\u201d when describing the stretch of coast between Pedra Longa and the Spanish Tower: \u201cContinuing southwards leads to the aforementioned pyramidal rock of Aguglia, then to the Moro-negro tip, where the Alpine protrusions have already gradually diminished and the marshlands begin. Pleasant places with verdant cliffs come into view and then onto the little port of San Giovanni; after which there is the tip of Santa Maria Navaresa surrounded by rocks, above whose cliffs stands the tower of the same name (…)\u201d. The waters now incorporated by the harbour docks were once called \u201csu mare de us Erissos\u201d (\u201cthe sea of Erittu\u201d) by the inhabitants of Santa Maria Navarrese because the cultivated land behind the beach belonged to the Erittu family.[\/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_empty_space hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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