{"id":29975,"date":"2023-09-15T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/fortino-di-santignazio\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:06:07","slug":"fortino-di-santignazio","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/fortino-di-santignazio\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortino di Sant&#8217;Ignazio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sant&#8217;Ignazio military fort stands on the <strong>Colle di Sant\u2019Elia.<\/strong> It was built in 1793 when the House of Savoy ruled the island, to combat French military attacks. It was the chief engineer Franco who drew up the project, <strong>inspired by the French fortifications<\/strong> designed by the engineer Vauban.\u00a0Its layout included <strong>5 bastions<\/strong>, and symbolically resembled<strong> turtles<\/strong> and was the result of <strong>modern studies on ballistics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The work made slow progress due to a lack of funds and therefore manpower. It was interrupted in 1795, leaving the work incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>In January <strong>1804<\/strong>, the fort was temporarily <strong>set up as a hospital<\/strong>, to assist the nearby leper hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>1848<\/strong>, with the abolition of the Society of Jesus, the structure <strong>housed the Jesuits<\/strong> expelled from the churches of San Michele and Santa Teresa in Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p>Its final usage before falling into its current state of abandon was during the <strong>Second World War<\/strong>, when it became an <strong>aircraft lookout point<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the fortress of Sant\u2019Ignazio is in a state of disrepair, <strong>it can still be visited by walking about 950 m to the lighthouse at Capo Sant\u2019Elia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"template":"","tipologia":[997],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1030],"class_list":["post-29975","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-fortificazione-en","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fortino di Sant&#039;Ignazio - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/fortino-di-santignazio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fortino di Sant&#039;Ignazio - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Sant&#8217;Ignazio military fort stands on the Colle di Sant\u2019Elia. 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