L’architettura vernacolare dell’entroterra sardo: riflessioni sulla conservazione e il riuso degli stazzi abbandonati della Gallura

The “stazzo” is the minimal settlement unit of rural regions in the north of Sardinia. It had its origins in the XVI - XVII century, when nomad Sardinian and then Corsicans sheperds started to settle in the region of Gallura. They occupied lands and started to practice pastoralism and agriculture and to build their first houses. Afterwards, these small and precarious constructions, slowly became less precarious turning into real villages. This could happen thanks to favorable legislative provisions issued by Piedmontese rulers, such as the “Editto delle Chiudende” in 1820 which allowed the formation of private property. These type of habitations shaped the typical spread settlements of Gallura, composed of a dense network of small towns surrounded by drywalls which defined different properties and their relevance spaces. So the region was colonized by agro-pastoral independent units whose fulcrum was the “stazzo” itself. Many of these settlements, due to the gradual depopulation that still today involves numerous Sardinian hinterland areas, are in a total abandonment state. Starting from some cases of abandoned villages in the region of Gallura, this contribution tries to deepen the filed of those needed actions to preserve these places, evaluating the current potentials of this territory and assuming restoration and reuse interventions that can lead to their gradual repopulation.