The Sardinian Regional Government is promoting an ideas competition for the revitalization of 8 coastal villages with the goal of defining ways of preserving, recovering, transforming and completing the existing built and natural landscape in harmony with the philosophy, goals and guidelines of the Regional Landscape Plan. The competition is calling for ideas for 8 coastal villages which were founded for activities such as salt production, fishing, religious worship, military defense, agricultural reclamation, tourism and leisure and which expanded along the coast especially during the period following the 1950's.