Carloforte
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Carloforte U Pàize |
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| Comune di Carloforte | ||
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 Carloforte
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| Coordinates: 39°9′N 8°18′E / 39.150°N 8.300°E | ||
| Country | Italy | |
| Region | Sardinia | |
| Province / Metropolitan city | South Sardinia | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Marco Simeone | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 50.24 km2 (19.40 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) | |
| Population (28 February 2015) | ||
| • Total | 6,207 | |
| • Density | 120/km2 (320/sq mi) | |
| Demonym(s) | Carlofortini or Tabarkini | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 09014 | |
| Dialing code | 0781 | |
| Patron saint | St. Charles Borromeo | |
| Saint day | November 4 | |
| Website | Official website | |
Carloforte (U Pàize in Ligurian, literally: the village, the town) is a fishing and resort town of located on Isola di San Pietro (Saint Peter's Island), approximately 7 kilometres (4 miles) off the southwestern coast of Sardinia, in southern Sardinia, Italy.
According to a legend, a local church (Chiesa dei Novelli Innocenti) was founded in the early 14th century in honour of hundreds of participants to the so-called Children's Crusade of 1212 who perished in a shipwreck just off the island on their way to North Africa during a gale. The church, called Chiesa dei Novelli Innocenti and is located within the town perimeter, is not currently used as a church (only one time in the year); it was the only evident remainder of building found at the time of colonization in 1739.
Carloforte was founded in the 18th century by some 30 families of coral fishers, originally from Pegli, near Genoa, Liguria. They had left their home town in 1541, and had settled in the island of Tabarka, off the coast of Tunisia, to fish for coral. After centuries, the coral in that area was exhausted and so the families set off back to Italy and found there was plenty of coral in the sea off the west coast of Sardinia. They asked the King of Sardinia Charles Emmanuel III for permission to settle on San Pietro Island, at that time not inhabited. When he granted them permission, the island was colonized (1739); the name Carloforte (Charles the Strong, but also the Fort of Carlo) was given to the town they established there, in honour of the king. To this day Carloforte maintains strong cultural ties with the towns of Pegli and Genoa. The population still speaks a variant of Ligurian language called tabarchìn (or tabarchino, in Italian), completely different from Italian and Sardinian, is used even by most children and taught in the schools of the island.
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