Rei cycle excursion

This event gave rise to the largest Italian agricultural penal structure, which has now become an elegant administrative and cultural centre, the 'heart' of a young municipality. The former penal colony of Castiadas is located in the central village, one of the sixteen scattered between the coast and the hinterland, which make up the 'widespread' town, which became autonomous in 1986. Thirty prisoners and seven prison officers from Cagliari reached the village by sea. the area, in August 1875, to start reclamation works after centuries of abandonment. Sarrabus was, in fact, a marshy territory, uninhabited due to malaria and plague epidemics. The first nucleus of the colony originated on the Is Praidis hill, later, thanks to the contribution of hundreds of other prisoners, numerous structures were built until it developed into a true self-sufficient citadel.