Muravera

Muravera lies in the Sarrabus district of southeastern Sardinia, near the island's eastern coast. In the Middle Ages it belonged first to the Judicate of Cagliari and then to Gallura; after the latter's fall, Pisa governed it directly. Repeated raids by Barbary corsairs threatened the coast. From the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century the Spanish built watchtowers, including those of Saline and Capo Ferrato, to guard the shore.