Day of celebration today in Carbonia . 84 years have passed since the day of the inauguration of the coal city and for the community that of December 18 is always a very heartfelt date. Way back on December 18, 1938, people flocked to Sulcis from all over the island to attend the inauguration of the youngest city in Italy. The elders remember that in the neighboring villages the order was to polish the carts and fill them with flowers, hitch up the oxen and position themselves along the road where the leader would pass . Tens of thousands then gathered in Piazza Roma, where Benito Mussolini himself greeted the birth of the new city.
The first stone of Carbonia was laid on 9 June 1937 and 16 months later the city was ready . A small great miracle, in full autarky, an entire city built in record time to house those who would work in the coal mines. Thousands came from every corner of the island and the peninsula: work was never lacking, but the life of the workers was hard.
In 84 years Carbonia has gone through many phases, it has known prosperity and the darkest crisis, it has witnessed, and still is, struggles full of pride and dignity always in the name of work. A job whose absence - mixed with the many problems of an entire territory - makes it difficult to think about the future even on a day of celebration.
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