LAGUNA DI S. GILLA
The pond of Santa Gilla has always been synonymous of life, being an important communication course, a vital resource for the extraction of salt and especially for fishing.
These environments, generally more peaceful and richer in food in rapport to the sea, are a strong call for juvenile fish, especially in the spring, which leave the sea to reach the lagoons, where it spends part of their life. Reached the age of reproduction, the fishes return to the sea for spawning. These migrations are also added the usual activities of adult fish in search of food.
For the Sardinian people, fishing in the lagoons was with the gathering and hunting, the oldest practice of livelihood. Numerous are the traces in villages near the lagoon of Cagliari like fish vertebrae, shells, or food residues which date back from the Neolithic period, around 6000 BC. The exploitation of lagoon resources continues and is refined in the Nuragic period (XVIII-V BC.), Phoenician and Roman (X BC. - IV AD) when the fish was sold throughout the island (remains of molluscs were found in areas away from the coast). Even today, fishing is a source of livelihood and this environmental became the seat of the “feast of the lagoon” during the festivities of St. Peter the Apostle fisherman.
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