San Pietro Island

The vegetation is that typical of the Mediterranean coast, with Cistus, mastic, strawberry tree, juniper, Aleppo pine and holm oak.

The western part exposed to the prevailing wind, the mistral, is more arid, with low scrub vegetation and largely uninhabited.

San Pietro is home today to remains from the Phoenician, Roman and Sardinian civilizations.

In 1739 century the then-uninhabited San Pietro was colonized by people of Ligurian language and ethnicity.

They had fled the Republic of Genoa's colony on the small Tunisian island of Tabarka, established in 1542 for the purpose of coral fishing, after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia.

Today most of the population has retained a variant of the Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino, which is also spoken in Calasetta, in the northern part of the neighboring Sant'Antioco island, whose residents are of the same origin.