« Sorry, the beach of Cala Cipolla is closed for explosion danger ». You look at their faces and immediately understand that they don't believe it. They can't, and don't want to, believe it. The face is contracted, as if the dream of entering paradise had blown up when the goal was already reached. The sign is bilingual, but whoever welcomes these poor tourists who have arrived from the United States on the threshold of the Cala Cipolla oasis, the heavenly coast of Chia, in the Domus de Maria area, explains it to them in monosyllables: beach closed due to risk of explosion.
Useless vocabulary
For the rest, even if they had a multilingual vocabulary at their disposal, it would not be easy for anyone to explain, much less understand, that with thirty degrees, blazing sun, flat sea and a breathtaking landscape, the beach is prohibited due to a bomb close to the float towards land. Barred with barriers and civil protection tape, as if all hell had broken out in that untouched piece of Sardinia. In this heart-pounding land of exclusive and enchanted beauty, everything, however, is possible, even finding a weapon of war, a potential bomb, close to the most prized shoreline of this natural diamond chiseled by the turquoise sea and a mastic breeze that touches since dawn. Whoever manages the car park has his face on the ground. Go and explain to them that after having traveled fifty kilometers and crossed the beaches of Su Giudeu and Su Cordolinu they won't even be able to set a foot in the white dust of Cala Cipolla, close to Capo Spartivento.
Summer reverse
Desert, exclusive cove without a soul: no approach. The dusty cars cannot go beyond those barriers that have been on display on the road to paradise since the past weekend. Reverse gear for most of them, who have come this far to fill their eyes and photograph the skyline of the enchanted proscenium in their memory. A film set, surrounded by a hypothetical red and white "barbed wire" that prohibits anyone from going beyond that explosive limit established by the Port Authority with a war ordinance. It is the inspection officer Mario Cespa who writes the State provision: "ban for the discovery of a presumed war device". The formula "presumed" is consolidated practice, like the one recently "found" at the entrance to the port of Teulada. Hooked in "suspension" by Navy bomb disposal divers and dragged offshore to blow up fish and bomb at the same time. The umpteenth and final discovery of a bomb outside the area of the island's military ranges opens up a disturbing scenario with a thousand questions about what is really happening on the Sardinian coasts. Ordnance, bombs and missiles appear like mushrooms everywhere, always or almost all in areas outside military ranges.
