Carbonia
Carbonia was officially inaugurated on the 18 December 1938. Benito Mussolini ordered the building of the city and was present at its inauguration. The city was built in order to provide housing for the workforce of the nearby mines. The name Carbonia comes from the Italian word for coal, a resource that is abundant in this region.
The city has grown considerably since its birth in 1938, due to mass immigration of populations come from every region of Italy, in particular from Veneto, Sicily, Abruzzo, Marche, Basilicata and Campania, now boasting a population of over 30,000.
Since the mines' closing during the 1970s, Carbonia has had to deal with a high unemployment rate. After the closure of the mines the town's economy was converted on the metallurgical industry, so today most Carbonians find their employment in the heavy industry, but also in the tertiary sector.
Iglesias
From ninth century, after a period of human absence, there was a little urban centre proved by the presence of a Byzantine church (Chiesa di San Salvatore). After, when Byzantinos left the island, Iglesias was under Cagliari's control. In the 1258 the territory around Iglesias was assigned to the "Della Gherardesca" family. The city part was under the duke Ugolino Della Gherardesca's control. The duke decided to take advantage of the silver resources present in the zone, so he founded a new city, called in Latin "Villa Ecclesiae" (now Villa di Chiesa, Church's Villa), developing old structures and building new ones. Della Gherardesca family also fashioned the medieval Castle of Salvaterra, the defence walls, athe hospital and an aqueduct.
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