SANT’ANTIOCO is a village with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants off Sardinia. In 1815 it was the scene of the last big Moorish raid on Italy: more than a hundred Sardinians were seized as slaves. Arabs and Berbers, then Turks and finally north African pirates terrorised the coast of Italy at intervals for 1,000 years. Muslims ruled Sicily for centuries and created enclaves there. In 846 they sacked the Vatican.
