Within the southern a part of the island of Sant’Antioco within the “Turri” space, there’s a watchtower which was constructed below the federal government of Rely Lorenzo Bogino.
In truth, he reorganized the administration of the coastal towers constructed below the Spanish domination of King Philip II. Already a while earlier than, the residents of Iglesias, concerned with cultivating land on the island of Sant’Antioco, had made a plea to the king of Sardinia, wherein they supplied their assist for the development of towers on the island.
For that reason, Carlo Emanuele III gave orders to the viceroy Cacherano of Bricherasio to arrange the development of the 2 towers already deliberate on the island. In 1757 the tower designed by the army engineer Vallin was constructed; it stands on the “su moru” cape, the southern promontory of the island of Sant’Antioco, in the present day known as “Turri”.
Turkish flotillas used to anchor on this stretch of sea till the primary many years of the nineteenth century. The Tower carried out an necessary work of sighting and speaking information to the army departments accountable for the protection of the island of Sant’Antioco through the French invasion try of 1793 and on the event of the final two Tunisian incursions of 1812 and 1815 on the island .
The Canai tower remained energetic till 1815. In current occasions the tower has been used as a vacationer residence by a personal particular person who, for this goal, has “remodelled” it in a questionable means. Solely in 1994 was it lastly returned to collective use by the Italia Nostra affiliation which, after acquiring it below concession, carried out a restoration venture in collaboration with the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage of Cagliari and the Ministry of the Atmosphere.
