Just off the coast of Sardinia , Italy , inwards the Gulf of Olbia , lies the lonely isle of Tavolara , that rises out of the bounding main every bit a jagged mount 5 kilometers long as well as 1 kilometer wide. Towards 1 destination , facing the Italian coast , the mount slopes downwards to course of report a narrow isthmus alongside a long , sandy beach. The isthmus is the entirely habitable business office of the island. It’s hither that Giuseppe Bertoleoni’s household unit of measurement as well as descendants convey been living for the past times ii hundred years.
Giuseppe Bertoleoni , a Genovese immigrant , arrived on the isle inwards 1807 , alongside the intention of living at that spot alongside 1 of his ii wives as well as their children , to escape bigamy charges. Upon arriving , Giuseppe proclaimed himself every bit the Rex of the isle , a championship Giuseppe claimed was verbally bestowed upon him past times Carlo Alberto , King of Sardinia , patch on a hunting trip to the isle inwards 1836. Since as well as hence Giuseppe’s household unit of measurement has ruled over the isle as well as its entirely inhabitants —the household unit of measurement themselves— for the final vii generations. They sustain themselves past times caprine animal farming as well as angling , as well as selling souvenirs to tourists. They too run the island’s ii restaurants.
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