The Perdaxius area is predominantly rural and sparsely populated compared to many heavily urbanized Italian and European regions; this has protected the area from light pollution. The Sulcis night sky is dark enough to see with the naked eye all the stars described in the most important historical catalogues, from Ptolemy’s Almagest to Al-Sufi’s Book of Fixed Stars. But it can also become an excuse to indulge children’s and young people’s desire to tell their stories and connect with themselves, others, and the universe.
The activity includes sky observation evenings dedicated to children and adolescents, also open to families, and in-depth meetings on the history of sky observation, the origins of the most famous constellations, and the names of the stars.
Children and young people will identify stars and constellations, redraw the map of the sky, reinterpreting historical figures with their imaginations and then imagining new stories of their own and drawing figures that belong to their experiences, their desires, their future: a new map of the Sulcis sky.
