Portoscuso
Seaside resort on the southwest coast of Sardinia, opposite the island of San Pietro, Portoscuso was founded in 1500 as a fishing village - mainly tuna and coral - around a tuna cannery. The complex of the trap, "Su Pranu" was a sort of citadel self-sufficient, where the houses of fishermen, called "barraccas" gathered around a large shelter for equipment for the tuna and the house. The owner of the trap, in the seventeenth century, had built within the complex also has a small church dedicated to Madonna dell'Itria.
Su Pranu also included a bakery, warehouse for food storage and a workshop. In the eighteenth century into the "barraccas" the refugees were housed in Tabarka, before the final transfer to Carloforte. The coast in the sixteenth century was subject to frequent incursions of Barbary pirates, who often captured and sold as slaves the inhabitants: for this reason, the Aragonese settled here a watch tower for defense, where inside were found some ancient guns, now in Cagliari Museum.
Today the tower is used for exhibitions and events. Unfortunately, the pirate attacks continued until 1816, when the Barbary pirates were finally defeated by the british fleet.Today Portoscuso is renowned for its beaches partly rocky partlysandy, like Piscinas beach, the dunes, the beach Portopaglietto and the Beach of the Germans, to name a few. The patron saint Santa Maria dell'Itria is celebrated on Whit Tuesday with a procession into the sea very much felt by the locals. During the summer, also held a series of gastronomic events: the Festival of tuna, in June, the feast of crab and "Arrusteddara" (roasted fish fest) in August.
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