Budelli

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Budelli
Spiaggia di Budelli.jpg
Waters Strait of Bonifacio ,
Tyrrhenian Sea
Archipelago La Maddalena
Geographical location 41 ° 17 ′  N , 9 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 17 ′  N , 9 ° 22 ′  E
Budelli (Sardinia)
Budelli
length 2.1 kmdep1
width 1.5 kmdep1
surface 1.68 km²
Highest elevation Monte Budello
88  m
Residents 1
<1 inh / km²

Budelli is an island in the La Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia . It belongs to the Italian national territory and is part of the La Maddalena Archipelago National Park in the Strait of Bonifacio between Sardinia and Corsica . The hermit Mauro Morandi, originally from Modena , settled there permanently in 1989.

geography

The island is located about 300 meters from the eastern neighboring islands. A protected stretch of beach with pale pink sand, the Spiaggia rosa, belongs to the cliff-rich coastline of 12 kilometers in the southeast . This and two other beaches are closed to tourists. The highest point is 88 m above sea level.

history

The islands of the archipelago were already known to the Romans as insulae Cuniculariae and very probably already inhabited in pre-Roman times because they were on the transport route of the obsidian between Sardinia, Corsica and Tuscany, which was valued in the Neolithic . In the coastal waters, fragments of an Attic kylix in red-figure style from the 5th century BC were found. In the 15th century there was a small monastery on Budelli, some remains of the foundation walls.

In the 1980s, a consortium of Swiss entrepreneurs, “Nuova Gallura srl”, bought Budelli from the previous owner, the Milanese industrialist Piero Tizzoni, who originally wanted to build a holiday village on the island.

In 1989, Mauro Morandi from Modena settled permanently on the island on a sailing trip and, according to his own statements, became an "employed island guard".

In 1992 a Roman lawyer prepared the parcelling for "Budelli srl" (which belonged to Nuova Gallura) and advertised in Italian newspapers, but the Ministry of the Environment prevented building speculation. In 1997 the Nuova Gallura became insolvent; the insolvency administrator wanted to auction the island. For a long time there was no buyer, the Italian state wanted to assert its right of first refusal if an interested party appeared. In 2013 the Senate approved three million euros for the purchase of the island. In the meantime, the New Zealand manager Michael Harte bought the island, and in a ruling on April 13, 2015, the Supreme Administrative Court ( Consiglio di Stato ) annulled the state's right of first refusal for formal reasons. After a three-year legal battle, which was accompanied by many polemics, the bankruptcy judge definitely dismissed Harte's appeals and awarded the island to the La Maddalena National Park.

The only resident

During a sailing trip that was planned as a circumnavigation , Mauro Morandi, who had just separated from his wife, discovered the island in 1989, which was then still privately owned. An island guard was wanted for them. Morandi took on this task, settled permanently in this function in the existing simple stone house and has lived there since then in self-chosen social isolation, largely self-sufficient with a few chickens and vegetables. He built a photovoltaic system, started taking photos and published his first book in 2019, at the age of eighty. Since 2016, when the island was added to the national park, his stay has been precarious because the law prohibits permanent residence in the strictly protected area. The administration tolerates his stay, mainly because he prevents environmental vandalism on the island. Morandi is present on social networks like Facebook and receives a lot of support there. He does not want to be driven away and only leave the island when he no longer feels strong enough to get through a winter there.

Web links

Commons : Budelli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Depending on the scale accuracy between 7 and 15 kilometers, cf. Coastline
  2. ↑ Teresa Serrao: Budelli All'asta per due miliardi (Budelli for auction for two billion (NB .: lire)). In: La Repubblica , daily newspaper. La Repubblica, December 12, 1999, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ King of Solitude - A dropout is fighting for his island life. In: Reports and Research. Arte and SWR, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Antonella Brianda: Riacquisto dell'isola da parte dello Stato (repurchase of the island by the state). November 24, 2013, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ricorso respinto, Budelli resta al magager neozelandese (objection rejected, Budelli stays with the New Zealand manager). In: La Nuova Sardegna , Sardinian daily newspaper. Finegil Editoriale SpA, April 13, 2015, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ Nessun padrone straniero, l'isola di Budelli diventa patrimonio pubblico (no foreign owner, the island of Budelli becomes a public property). In: La Stampa. La Stampa, May 17, 2016, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Simon Riesche: EREMIT ON THE ITALIAN ISLAND: “Only a few will draw the right conclusions from the crisis”. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. faz.net, April 5, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The hermit wants to stay on the island , nzz.ch, August 15, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020