From July 10 to September 30, 2026, a photography exhibition will celebrate and publicize the history of Fertilia and its community, marking the 90th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the city. The exhibition will be held in two locations: in the lobby of Alghero-Fertilia Airport and on Via Pola in Fertilia, with an open-air installation transforming the center into a veritable open-air museum. The exhibition is dedicated to one of the best-preserved examples of twentieth-century Italian rationalist architecture and to the women who played a key role in the rebirth of this area in northern Sardinia, who, after World War II...

RAI also supported the initiatives organized to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Fertilia Foundation and the Nurra Reclamation area of ​​Alghero, granting RaiNews.it and RaiNews24 media partnerships for a series of high-level social and cultural events sponsored by the Municipality of Alghero and Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi, through the Mission Structure for Anniversaries of National Interest of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The next event: Sunday, May 31, the Fertilia Freewheel Bike Ride. "The May 31 event is part of the rich calendar of initiatives dedicated to the 90th...

The "FERTILIA GRANDI eVENTI - APS" Association announces that director Igor Biddau, accompanied by director of photography Daniele Diana and a team of students from the cinematography and set design courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari, led by production designer Oscar Solinas and costume designer Giulia Petruso, has begun filming a docudrama recounting the birth of Fertilia. Among the young talents from the Sassari Academy are Ottavio Golosio, Jaime Garau, Gabriele Cossu, Diego Pisano, Gabriele Paschina, Emma Spanu, and Zuzanna Maria Michalik, who are joined by the lead actors Maurizio Pulina (the Principal), Francesca Iacuzzi, and...

The comprehensive multimedia box set HISTRIA E OLTRE is taking shape! It will include: FERTILIA ISTRIANA, an auteur documentary directed by Cristina Mantis and co-written with Daniela Piu and Francesca Angeleri: a choral tale of the experiences of postwar Istrian exiles. ISTRIA, a musical edition of Istrian folk songs curated by musician Mario Fragiacomo. It features original songs from the Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian exodus, performed by the Mitteleuropa Ensemble, coordinated by Fragiacomo; the presentation is by writer Diego Zandel. PORTOLE, a volume of drawings by painter Bruno Chersicla, containing about twenty paintings depicting Portole d'Istria...

The Rai Spotlight program. The RaiNews24 investigations dedicated an episode to the story of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles who went to Fertilia, the unfinished city of foundation. It then focused on the journey back undertaken by some of them, by boat, to return to Istria, the land of their fathers. On the trail of the thirteen fishing boats that landed from Chioggia in the unfinished town near Alghero (SS), after twenty days and twenty nights of circumnavigation of the Italian peninsula. The episode of Spotlight entitled Fertilia, city of welcome. From Sardinia the return journey to the land of the fathers can be freely viewed in...

Fertilia wakes up with a community embrace never felt before, so strong, so shared and participated. The message of being able to overcome the mistakes of history, shine a light on memory and bind communities with a single community spirit came loud and clear, from Fertilia, its inhabitants and the authorities. The third and final day of the event "Fertilia Città di Fondazione", saw the official presentation of one of the most anticipated projects, especially by the young audience. After the greetings of the President of the Natural Shopping Center Anna Sigurani and the President of the Alghero Foundation Neria De Giovanni, who participated not only as...

In Fertilia today we talked about history, emotions, “fertilience”, a new word that today has been written in memory. 28 years after the Zagreb protocol with which Italy and Croatia defined their commitment to the protection of minorities in their respective countries and four years after the historic “hand in hand” of Presidents Pahor and Mattarella in front of the Basovizza foiba, the representatives of the Italian Union and the most representative Associations of exiles from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia discussed how to strengthen the common commitment to keep a light on memory. On this thread of memory and on the importance of the seed of unity and of...

“Re-telling Fertilia as a center for the regeneration of the urban fabric and its territorial fabric”: this is the premise of the three-day “Fertilia Città di Fondazione”, which hosted the conference “Fertilia and the territory, tools, perspectives and innovation” on the morning of the opening day. After greetings from the president of the Centro Naturale Commerciale Anna Sigurani, from Don Angelo Cocco (former parish priest of Fertilia) and from the Councilor for Urban Planning of the municipality of Alghero Roberto Corbia, the president of the Neighborhood Committee Luca Rondoni introduced the theme of the conference, emphasizing the desire to build an important dialogue with...

Everything is ready for the event that wants to encompass the interest and the will to build concrete projects in Fertilia, in that village that was born as a Foundation City and that has all the credentials to grow its urban aspect by focusing on innovation and young people. The opening day will focus precisely on this, on the work that the Department of Architecture of the University of Sassari will carry forward together with the professionals and scholarship holders who on Friday 20 September will illustrate to those present at the morning conference. They will not be simple interventions that retrace the original redevelopment project: Fertilia has a history...

On September 20, 21 and 22, under the guidance of the associations that accepted the invitation of the Municipality of Alghero to manage and organize the event “Fertilia Città di Fondazione”, the CCN Fertilia città di Fondazione, together with the territorial associations, including the Fertilia-Arenosu Neighborhood Committee, the Egea Association – A Light on Memory, the EGIS, the Provincial Committee of Sassari – Fertilia of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Committee for the Celebrations of San Marco, and thanks to the valuable funding of the Region of Sardinia, the Municipality of Alghero, the national ANVGD and the Multimedia Documentation Center of Culture...