Carbonia Half-day guided tour lasts 2 hours and is about the main buildings of the city center.
Carbonia is a young city, founded just over 80 years ago in the heart of Sulcis during the fascist period, wanted and inaugurated by Benito Mussolini himself as a company town built to give a house to the thousand of miners coming from everywhere to work in its coal mines.
Yet in its territory they have been discovered the remains of the oldest human beings in Sardinia. So is it really such a young city?
Carbonia, which won the European Landscape Award with the “Carbonia Landscape Machine” project, is a jewel from an architectural point of view, with the center made up of monumental buildings that outline a fascinating and unusual landscape for our island.
Carbonia Half-day guided tour is all by foot and accessible to people with walking difficulties and families with strollers.
The Guide: Tiziana Dedola, tourist guide and local expert.
Overview
Carbonia is a city with a metaphysical atmosphere, a city of contrasts and stories to tell.
The guided tour goes to the discovery of the center of Carbonia, the buildings that represented the fascist splendor and the attempt to organize the life of its inhabitants, a city designed by architects such as Pulitzer-Finali or Guidi and Valle protagonists of urban architecture of the ‘900.
The visit is all by foot and accessible to people with walking difficulties and families with strollers.
Highlights:
- Piazza Roma
- Littoria Tower
- Dopo-Lavoro and Cine-Teatro
- Statue by Pinuccio Sciola
- Church of San Ponziano
- Post Office and Town Hall building
- Work of Giò Pomodoro "Fragments of the Void"
- Villa of the Director of the Mine
- Central Hotel for employees
