Carloforte is a fishing and resort town of located on Isola di San Pietro (Saint Peter’s Island), approximately 7 km off the South Western Coast of Sardinia, Italy. Carloforte was founded in the 18th century by some 30 families of coral fishers, originally from Pegli, near Genoa, Liguria. They had left their home town in 1541, and had settled in the island of Tabarka, off the coast of Tunisia, to fish for coral. After centuries, the coral in that area was exhausted and so the families set off back to Italy and found there was plenty of coral in the sea off the west coast of Sardinia.
They asked the King of Sardinia Charles Emmanuel III for permission to settle on San Pietro Island, at that time not inhabited. Modern-day Carloforte’s principal sources of revenue are fishing, tourism, and remittances from the many merchant mariners around the World who hail from Carloforte. Frequent (hourly) ferry services connect the recently expended port of Carloforte with the Sardinian mainland at Portovesme as well as Calasetta, a similar fishing port on Sant’Antioco Island.
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