It feels like we've gone back to a few summers ago, when, due to the lack of a pier, tourists and visitors were dumped directly onto the beach from boats that were forced to land just meters from the shoreline. This created safety and environmental concerns.
Today at Cala Luna, a jewel of a beach in Ogliastra , the situation repeated itself, just a day after the seizure of the pier by the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza (Italian Finance Police) on behalf of the Lanusei Public Prosecutor's Office . The decision was prompted by a complaint from the Municipality of Baunei alleging that the Municipality of Dorgali, the concessionaire for the pier after winning a tender, was not authorized to carry out the construction work.
The dispute between the two administrations has been going on for years, and today the beach has been the one to suffer . This is the opinion of the guides who manage the Viaggio in Sardegna portal. On the Facebook page managed by Sara Muggittu and Marco Bellu, a photo of a boat that had just arrived on the beach was posted today: "Yesterday the pier was seized, meanwhile the boats continue to land directly on the shore . It's still May, and the comings and goings are already intense."
This beach, they write, is one of the most extraordinary places in Sardinia, and perhaps precisely for this reason, it carries an enormous burden: that of being contested, claimed, and administered from afar by those who often don't even notice. The dispute between Dorgali and Baunei is not new. But every year, without fail, it resurfaces, and Cala Luna always suffers . We're not here to argue anyone's right or wrong, they explain. We're here because we know it, we take it with us on excursions, we tell people about it from afar, hoping to find it intact. And we believe that two communities rooted in this area have every interest—and every ability—to find a common path. A shared, transparent management that truly puts the protection of the place at the center, not the defense of jurisdictions.
