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Archaeological Roman The area of Project jointly funded by the European Union area of baths of the basilicas Operational programme ERDF 2007 – 2013 Forum Traiani of Cornus EUROPEAN UNION ERDF - European Regional Development Fund - Axis I, Activity line 1.2.3.a. Cabras

REPUBBLICA ITALIANA

P.O.R. ERDF 2007-2013, Line 1 “Information Society”, Specific Goal 1.2. “Promoting and developing the information society with a particular attention to those key aspects that will sustain the development of the territory and the quality of life, as health, education and the promotion of culture”, Operational Goal 1.2.3. “Increasing the production of the digital contents”, Action Line of 1.2.3.a. “Actions for the production, publication and sharing on the web and on new media (DTV, mobile T, etc.) of digital contents concerning Sardinia’s culture, literature, music, territory and images for a social fruition”.

Cultural heritage

We thank the Superintendence for the Architectural, Landscape, Historical, Artistic and Ethno- Oristanese Anthropological Heritage for the metropolitan city of and for the provinces of , Medio Campidano, Carbonia-Iglesias and Ogliastra, for the kind cooperation. Territory

Archaeological area of Tharros | Cabras

Roman baths of Forum Traiani | Fordongianus

The area of the basilicas of Cornus-Columbaris | Cuglieri Cultural heritage Unicity Srl: Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Coordination and Production 3D and 3D Render Reconstruction Oristanese and Production Virtual Guided Territory Visits and Virtual Views Production Communication and Multimedia

Archaeological area of Tharros Testaluna Srl: Text: Mr. Carlo Tronchetti 3D Planning and Interactivity

Roman baths of Forum Traiani Polonord Adeste Srl: Text: Mr. Carlo Tronchetti USB Pendrive Production

The area of the basilicas of Cornus-Columbaris Imago Multimedia Snc: Text: Mrs. Claudia Cocco Texts, Graphics and Photographs of the sites Mrs. Francesca Collu inside the Digital and Paper Guide FSG Sas - Unicity Srl: Cultural heritage Cultural heritage sites Interactive multimedial stations Text: Mr. Giulio Concu, Mrs. Silvia Vidili and technical support The project “Cultural heritage Sardegna Virtual Archaeology”

he archaeological and architectonic they are fundamental elements of the heritage of Sardinia offers a lot of nowadays Sardinian identity heritage. The Tunusual traits compared to the other essential aspects of the Sardinian Mediterranean territories. Its peculiarities archaeology and architecture are well known, are concentrated in particular between the even if in a partial way, thanks to those late pre-history and the proto-history and excellent examples of the Nuragic complex have their apex in the . of or the Romanesque church of However, some other distinctive historical- Saccargia, which are already part of a time features of Sardinia come from the common heritage ; but in a world where significant presence of the Phoenician, gathering information is relatively simple, the Punic, Roman and Byzantine colonisations. public administration has the duty of A new and specific culture arose from the presenting the culture of Sardinia in an interaction of the local culture with those objective and complete way, so that it could outer civilizations: its material and be available for any kind of experts and or immaterial aspects can be easily found and any people without experience. That is why the R.A.S. ( Regional Administration of innovative educational products connected Sardinia) has chosen to stimulate the to the Sardinian places of culture, creating an Oristanese spectacular aspects of some of the main integrated system of sites and monuments archaeological and architectonic remains, that will be rebuilt with the use of the most which were already built in dramatic recent 3D technologies. So, the Sardinian landscapes that could fascinate even the heritage will be available for any kind of user least interested visitor. But the real challenge through high quality products characterized lies in contextualizing the archaeological sites by fascinating graphics and rich interactive in their cultural environment. The idea comes information. With these purposes, seventeen from the concept that the remains of ancient sites among the most significant of the cultures can “tell a story” when they are Sardinian history and culture, deployed in “examined” all together, as if they were the eight areas of interests , have been virtually pages of a book that otherwise would be reconstructed with three-dimensional and incomprehensible at the end. Basically, the realistic features , as a result of an accurate project aims to illustrate a monument or a research on the bibliographic and site showing the reasons why it is interesting cartographic material. The digital not just for itself but also and above all for its reconstructions meet those reconstructive importance in the surrounding cultural and hypotheses that have been validated by the natural environment. This aspect is essential scientific and academic community and that and useful for the interpretation of the today originate from the excavations, the field world: it helps us to understand why we researches, the historical-archaeological and should preserve our archaeological and artistic studies. Therefore, the 3D architectonical heritage , beyond its reconstructions offer the highest degree of monumentality and although pertinent to fidelity to the original building or site, cultures, as for instance the Roman one, that reproducing the surrounding natural are usually considered extraneous to the landscape and the archaeological identitarian inheritance. The ways through environment with the external structures, the which this kind of knowledge should be inner spaces and real-life settings. The spread, are set depending on the media to ultimate digital product will be available at which they are addressed for its fruition. Still, some of the most important cultural places of the available products will go beyond the Sardinia, as for instance museums and mere didactic presentation of the site to universities, and at the so-called “access come to a wider and complete description points”, that are specific public spaces where from all cultural points of view. the interactive multimedia posts will be installed and accessible to all visitors. Moreover, the product will be available on Content and purpose of the project digital support to be distributed during conventions, fairs, forum and tourism The project “Sardinian Virtual Archaeology exhibitions. In fact, the specific purpose of Cultural Heritage” was set up with the aim to the RAS’ “Linea di Attività 1.2.3.a” aims to enhance the so-called “Homogeneous increase the production, divulgation and System of Visual Identity” that the R.A.S. has sharing of digital contents referring to already started with the main purpose to Sardinian cultural assets, so to improve the create an instrument of safeguard and knowledge of the diverse users and to promotion of the Sardinian cultural heritage. enhance the education of the different Besides, the project contributes to the segments of students, in view of a useful improvement of the scientific, didactic and socio-cultural repercussion on the territory. Giants of Mont’e Prama, Cabras

6 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology General map of Sardinia Oristanese territory

Olbia

Porto Torres Cuglieri

Alghero Sassarese Cornus

Nuoro Oristanese Cuglieri Nuorese Cornus Fordongianus Oristanese Fordongianus Forum Traiani Cabras Forum Traiani Cabras Oristano Ogliastra Tharros Oristano

Tharros

Medio Campidano Cagliaritano

Cagliari

Sulcis

Archaeological Roman baths of The area of the Basilicas area of Tharros Forum Traiani of Cornus-Columbaris (Cabras) (Fordongianus) (Cuglieri) Cabras • Archaeological of the hills of Su Muru Mannu and of San area of Tharros Giovanni . On the top of the hill of Su Muru Mannu the archaeologists found the ruins of a Nuragic village that was frequented until the 8 th century B.C. They have not yet he city of Tharros is situated in the definitely defined the date of the foundation peninsula of Cape San Marco that, of Tharros as a real city. On the basis of the Ttogether with the opposite point of new excavations, mainly in the southern and Cape Frasca, outlines the wide gulf of northern necropolises, and of the revision of Oristano, called “ mare morto ” (dead sea) by the old elements, the foundation of the local people. The settlement stretches along Phoenician city of Tharros is dated to the the eastern coast of the peninsula, looking final decades of the 7 th century B.C. But into the mare morto and occupying the slopes almost nothing was left of this first city,

The peninsula of Cape San Marco from the north: on the left, some remains of the city; on the right, the slope of the hill of San Giovanni Tharros: view of the urban area

10 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 11 messed up and covered by later heavy urban The areas of the city that have been between the two areas stretch the quarters of Sardinia. On the top of the hill, along the interventions, and the only finds come from excavated so far (even if not entirely) are with houses and public buildings that are western and the northern sides, there is in the necropolises, mainly from the northern distinguished in two main sectors: the hill of marked by the Roman street network, still to fact a surrounding wall, a really imposing one, unfortunately almost completely Su Muru Mannu, the lower area of the hills of be excavated. On the hill of Su Muru Mannu structure, built with the use of big irregular devastated by the 19 th -century excavations. Su Muru Mannu and of San Giovanni; there is the best preserved fortification work basalt blocks that were superimposed

↑ The southern necropolis ↓ The walls of the trench and the postern

The postern

12 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 13 without the use of any mortar. Along the a long trench. When this great work was not chamber and the trench was used as a tophet , a place where they buried the babies western side there was a postern that was useful any more, the trench lost its function necropolis during the Imperial Roman age. who died at or just after birth. Close to the later blocked up about in 50 B.C. In front of and it was partially filled just after the second During the Phoenician and Punic ages, the northern side of the tophet stretched an area this wall there is another wall that was built half of the 1 st century B.C. In front of the area behind the defensive wall where there without any buildings that once was linked to with the same technique: the two walls form postern they erected a small funerary had been the Nuragic village hosted the the compound-wall entrance to the city,

↑ Reconstruction of the Roman urban area of Tharros ↓ The central quarter of Tharros

A Roman street

14 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 15 today identified as a small amphitheatre slabs and provided with a central sewer that in some well-defined areas, with a big triangle was made of a square, which hosted originally surrounded by terracings. At the received the drains from the nearby houses, triangular-shaped sector that was occupied the castellum aquae of the city. This was a big southern slopes of the hill of Su Muru Mannu divide the area in three wide quarters. The by some religious public buildings towards cistern that received the water from the you can spot the first traces of the Roman Roman street network, dated to the Imperial the sea, and by the housing buildings towards aqueduct and presented a public fountain remains. Two wide streets, paved with basalt age, articulates the urban pattern of the city the hill. The northern-western vertex of the just before it. The triangular area also

↓ Reconstruction of the temple of the ↑The castellum aquae with the fountain ↓ Reconstruction of the castellum aquae ↑ The semi-column decoration of the Punic temple ↓ semi-columns during the Punic age

16 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 17 contained some sacred buildings, among During the 2 nd century A.D. they covered the during the second half of the 1 st century B.C. northwards of this temple they built another which there is the “Temple of the semi- temple or built some other structures on it on a podium made of big blocks and that had small religious building, of which just an columns”, built during the Punic age and so that are not visible today. On the opposite four columns on the façade; the two columns hexagonal baptismal font is left. The public called because the long sides are articulated side of the street there are the remains of in situ today were set up in the Fifties of the area of the Roman city continues southwards by semi-columns carved on the rocky basis. another probable temple, which was built last century. During the Byzantine age, with another thermal building, called “Terme

↑ Reconstruction of the temple of the ↓The Roman temple with the rebuilt columns ↑ The hexagonal baptismal basin ↓ The thermal baths of “Convento Vecchio” ↑ semi-columns during the Roman age

18 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 19 di Convento Vecchio”. The remaining area of really difficult. It is still remarkable the Tharros includes the houses of the Roman accurate division of the city into “quarters”, and Late-Roman ages, but the arrangement with paved minor streets starting from the and adaptation works, already carried out in main streets and provided with an efficient ancient times, make a precise description sewer system . •

↑ Reconstruction of the Roman urban area of Tharros ↓ A Roman house

A Roman narrow street with the surrounding houses

20 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 21 Fordongianus • Roamn settlement had a great importance already baths of Forum Traiani before: it is not by chance that inside the area the archaeologists found an inscription saying that the civitates Barbariae , the tribes that lived in the innermost areas of the island and were not under the Roman rule, made an act he settlement of Forum Traiani is of submission to the emperor Tiberius, just located in a favourable geographic after 19 A.D. Strictly linked to thermal water Tposition along the inward penetration are also numerous inscriptions found in the way represented by the valley of the river thermal area and dedicated to the Nymphs; Tirso. Undoubtedly the presence of the some other inscriptions, in a smaller number, naturally-hot water spring was one of the carry dedications to the health deity of causes that brought to the foundation of the Asclepius. The thermal baths lie close to the first baths, which were later raised to the rank river Tirso. Actually, they include two of forum by the emperor Traianus, as the consecutive-in-times but integrated name of the settlement clearly shows. But the buildings: “Terme I” and “Terme II”.

Portico of the pool of the thermal baths Reconstruction of the pool of the thermal baths

22 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 23 TERME I comes down from the northern hill of the with five openings towards the pool marked bases of the pillars and its existence was of The first phase of the thermals baths can be area. The central structure is the natatio A, a by squared pillars. The light came from some course an essential static condition of the dated back to the age of Trajan, at the pool surrounded by four steps, where the hot skylights in the vaults. Just the southern vault of the wide natatio , that probably was beginning of the 2 nd century A.D. The thermal water poured down after being mixed with portico is left today, but the presence of the cross vaulted. At the western side of the pool baths used the naturally-hot water that pours cold water. The pool presented two vaulted northern one is certain, being that on the there are some rooms ( Ambiente B ) that at a temperature of about 54 °C degrees and porticoes at the southern and northern sides, northern side of the pool there are still the probably were used as bathrooms or service

↑ The pool of the thermal baths ↓ Reconstruction of the pool of the thermal baths

Skylights of the portico

24 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 25 rooms, with a small tub or some basins to mix . Thanks to a series of some At Fordongianus is alto attested the cult to Asclepius, which anyway had an old cult hot and cold water that then poured into the dedicatory inscriptions, it was already known Asclepius, a healing deity, obviously linked to tradition in Sardinia since the Punic age. main pool. On the shorter eastern side of the that the cult of the nymphs was practised at the healthy effects of the thermal water. Afterwards, probably around the 3 rd century pool, there is another rectangular room, Fordongianus, but the finding of the There are not just dedicatory inscriptions but A.D. considering the building technique, the called B1. This is really important because the nymphaeum reveals also the place where this also two small statues reproducing the god thermal structures were remarkably extended excavations have identified it as a cult was celebrated and had its core. Bes, a healthy figure often assimilated to southwards. This phase is called “Terme II”.

↓Inscription of the Civitates ↑↓ Reconstruction of the nymphaeum Barbariae to the emperor Tyberius

The nymphaeum

26 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 27 TERME II belongs to a very important building phase suggested by the presence of two opposite passed and by its position between the The new building followed the altimetry of during which they built also the public central basins on the southern and northern rooms. frigidarium and two adjacent and the land, which goes up from the banks of the core of Forum Traiani . In the eastern sector of Westwards there is the “Room L”, which was intercommunicating calidaria . The first river Tirso; so, the structure was built at a the new building raises the quadrangular the tepidarium , as suggested by the presence calidarium is the biggest and is provided with higher level compared to “Terme I” and it “Room I”, which was the frigidarium , as of a gap between the walls where the hot air a rectangular basin. Northwards of the

↑ Reconstruction of the thermal baths ↓ Basin of the frigidarium ↑ Reconstruction of the frigidarium ↓ Basin of the calidarium

28 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 29 “Room L”, westerly adjacent, there is a small “Terme II” include two other small rooms room called “ Ambiente M ”, where is still called “ Ambienti P and Q”, indicated as two visible a later and modest staircase that furnaces to heat up the rooms. Southwards, linked “Terme II” to “Terme I”. Westwards, and close to the thermal structures, there is a

↑ Reconstruction of the square, the thermal baths and the adjacent buildings ↓ The square and the staircase

The water canal system

30 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 31 wide paved square, crossed by a water canal remains of some water cisterns and tanks. eastern area stands another building with a function, the size and articulation of this last system and that in its southern side includes The researchers suppose that the same peculiar L plan and two corridors looking into building are still unknown: probably it was a another staircase in bad conditions leading square was used as the forum of the a wide open space just close to the vestibule macellum , where the market took place, or towards the actual village of Fordongianus; in settlement and that in the upper area stood a of “Terme II” and where open several small maybe a hospitium , a sort of a hotel for the the upper sector, the square keeps the temple, even if no proofs are left. In the rooms characterized by frescoed walls. The guests of the thermal baths. •

Reconstruction of the pool of the thermal baths

32 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 33 The portico of the pool

34 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 35 Cuglieri • The area Sardinia (238 B.C.), the built-up area was of the basilicas rebuilt on the previous one. On the of Cornus-Columbaris surrounding area spread the scattered settlement characterised by villas, like the one of Columbaris , located northwards of the city of Cornus. Researchers suppose that in he area of Cornus was frequented this region there was a thermal complex, from the pre-historical to the modern probably linked to the suburban villa, which Tage: during the last decades of the 6 th since the 4 th century was reused with a burial century B.C., the Carthaginians built the and sacred function. The archaeological homonym city that was probably located on excavations revealed the remains of an the plateau of Campu’e Corra and on the hill Episcopal complex structured in three of Corchinas . After the Roman conquest of basilicas, maybe ascribable to the diocese of

The double apse of the funerary basilica Aerial view of the hill of Corchinas

36 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 37 Senafer . The oldest funerary function was thermal baths. The surrounding area too was funerary sector was monumentalized with and five contiguous rooms. Between the end recognized when the archaeologists found used to carve tombs inside the rock. the same kind of tombs. At the same time, of the 5 th and the beginning of the 6 th century some tombs carved inside a 3 rd -century B.C. Afterwards, the cistern-room became a noble they built a funerary basilica with a one-nave A.D. the basilica was modified with the quadrangular cistern – probably a part of the sepulchre with four sarcophagi and the entire ground floor, two northern concentric apses construction of a room provided with a basin,

↑ The noble sepulchre of Cornus-Columbaris ↓ Reconstruction of the funerary basilica with some sarcophaguses ↑ Reconstruction of the interior of the funerary basilica ↓ Funerary basilica: inner rooms with some tombs

38 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 39 next to the eastern side of the basilica. In the structure was made of the bishop’s house and ordinary liturgy, while the minor was raised apse – with a raised chair – included in same period they built the Episcopal of two parallel communicating aisles exclusively destined for the celebration of the a rectilinear wall flanked by two service rooms complex, linked to the funerary basilica differently oriented: the main, called baptism rites. The cathedral was (pastophoria). The altar was situated at the through a wide courtyard. The diocesan “Episcopal”, was the place in charge of the characterised by a narthex, three naves and a centre of the main nave and was originally

↓ Reconstruction of the Episcopal basilica ↑ Reconstruction of the Episcopal complex ↓ Reconstruction of the Episcopal basilica (southern nave) ↑ The altar and the apse of the Episcopal basilica ↓ with the canopy on the altar

40 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 41 surmounted by a canopy. The baptismal cruciform font. The structure was changed which was used as the entrance for the ones entering the main basilica. Southwards of the basilica presented a western apse, a three- profoundly between the end of the 5 th and who were going to be baptized; the baptismal main basilica and linked to the same nave ground floor, an eastern entrance – that the first half of the 6 th century: two basin got a polygonal shape. Moreover, a new structure there was the bishop’s house was after walled-in – and a baptismal pastophoria were added at each side, one of way was opened for the neo-baptized people composed of a complex of living rooms and

↑ Reconstruction of the baptismal basilica ↓ Baptismal basilica: the font and the walled-in entrance ↑ Baptismal basilica: the font and the raised apse ↓ Reconstruction of a stone cutter’s workshop

42 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 43 workshops. Among the rooms they found a concerned particularly the Episcopal basilica, the city: the first sepulchres, carved into the plastered with red paint. Since the middle of mason’s workshop that still kept some whose eastern side collapsed between the 7 th rock, were cappuccina or enchytrismos tombs, the 4 th century they used limestone chest or building materials. The first damages were and the 8 th century. The graveyard was used some covered by a layer of stones, some basin sarcophaguses, while during the 6 th caused to the structures by a fire that from the foundation to the abandonment of others by a mound that in some cases were century they used to bury the dead in the

↑ Reconstruction of archaeological area of Columbaris ↓ The eastern graveyard ↑ The eastern graveyard and the apse of the baptismal basilica in the background ↓ Some tombs of the eastern graveyard

44 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 45 ground marking the tombs with some rows of with the probable aim to differentiate the deceased to wish happiness to its soul by the 7 th century, the ruins of the collapsed stones. The dead rested on a funeral cushion, families. Inside the graveyard they also introducing some food inside the tomb, like structures were used to cover the graveyard: obtained at the bottom of the sarcophagus. celebrated some rites, like the refrigerium : this milk, honey and just next to the so, the city was gradually abandoned, firstly Some tombs were set in group or in rows, Christian rite consisted in a banquet for the deceased’s head. During the second half of the basilicas and then the graveyard. •

Reconstruction of the eastern graveyard with different kinds of tombs

46 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 47 Oristanese territory | Cultural Heritage sites towers. At the entry of the and really noteworthy thanks 09. • village there are the ruins of a to its Futurist forms. San Giovanni seven-arcade Roman bridge , The village of Asuni keeps a restored in 1157. In the 07. • Church of nice historical centre, with historical centre stands the SS. Cosma and Damiano lanes and old portals around church of the Spirito Santo , In the village of Ardauli you the church of San Giovanni built in 16 th -17 th century in can visit the church of Battista . The remains of 01. • Nuraghe 02. • is the most important centre Gothic-Catalan style. Vergine of Buoncammino , Nuraghe San Giovanni Losa Nuraghe Sanilo of the Marmilla region and the built in the 17 th century in overlook the village. In the territory of Abbasanta The territory of Aidomaggiore smallest episcopal seat of 06. • Water pump Sardinian-Catalan style with In the southern outskirts there are lots of archaeological keeps some . In the old town centre of Sassu Gothic and Baroque influxes, there is the Neolithic sites, among which Nuraghe necropoles, thryt-six giants’ you can visit the Bishop’s Founded in 1928 with the necropolis of Budragas Aiga that includes a central tombs and numerous Nuragic House , the seventeenth- name of Mussolinia , after and Nuraghe Casteddu . tower and three lateral ones century oratory of the Rosary the fall of Fascism Arborea linked by a bastion. The most and the cathedral of San was given the name of the 10. • Church important monument is Pietro , built in Romanesque medieval giudicato (kingdom). of Santa Margherita Nuraghe Losa (15 th -9 th style in 1503 by Violante The architecture of the Baradili is the smallest village century b.C.), among the best Carroz, countess of Quirra. public buildings, between of Sardinia. In the old town preserved Nuragic sites in Few kilometres far from Ales Liberty and Neo-Gothic, centre stands the church of Sardinia. It presents a central there is the hamlet of differentiates Arborea from Santa Margherita that keeps

Nuraghe Sanilo

towers, like Nuraghe Sanilo , a Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano complex monument made of a central and two lateral and the church of SS. Cosma towers. and Damiano , built in 1155. On the shore of Lake 03. • Church Omodeo there is the country of San Sebastiano church of San Quirico , Nuraghe Losa The hamlet of Albagiara, Cathedral of S. Pietro Water pump of Sassu built in 1101. Church of S. Pietro between Monte Arci and the tower linked to three others by plateau of Giara di Gesturi, Zeppara , with the church of any other village of Sardinia. 08. • Church some precious wooden a mighty bastion, which does presents an old town centre San Simeone , whose original In the central square stands of Santa Lucia statues, and the former not include any inner with stone houses, old portals structure dates back to the the church of Redentore , in The village of Assolo keeps Monte Granatico . courtyard, a fact that and the church of San Middle Ages; it is the only Neo-Gothic style. The intact the charm of the old differentiates Nuraghe Losa Sebastiano , rebuilt in the 17 th church in Sardinia dedicated industrial site of the Mulino hamlet, with portals and 11. • from all other important century. Casa Malloci is an to the bishop of Jerusalem. (mill) hosts the Museum porches around the Church of San Pietro Nuragic complexes. interesting old house that now MUB , which gathers the church of San Sebastiano , The village of Baratili San The presence of cinerary hosts the Archaeological- 05. Allai • Church Archaeological Collection built in the 17 th century. Pietro lies along the banks of urns of Imperial age at the Ethnographic Museum . of Santo Spirito with findings from the You can also visit the the stream Mare Foghe; in the entry of the archaeological The village of Allai lies in the necropolis of S’Ungroni . Just country church of Santa old town centre stands the area shows that the nuraghe 04. Ales • Cathedral fertile valley of the stream before the pond of S’Ena Lucia , in a site already church of San Pietro , flanked was attended until the 7 th of San Pietro Massari-Flumineddu, Arrubia stands the water populated in Nuragic and by a bell tower with an onion century A.D. Historically, the village of Ales scattered with lots of Nuragic pump of Sassu , built in 1934 Roman times. dome.

48 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 49 12. • Nuraghe Sardinia and among the fews built on the ruins of the three-nave plan and an apsis some important medieval Roman findings, among which Su Sensu in the Mediterranean area Medieval centre of Orene. at the rear. Along the left bank frescoes. The picturesque the Roman bridge called The village of Baressa is dedicated to Jupiter. of the river Temo, you can visit quarter of Sa Costa lies on the Pont’ecciu , now under the immersed in a territory 17. • Main the quarter Sas Conzas , with slopes of the hill at the foot of water of Lake Omodeo. In the inhabited since the Nuragic 15. • Church monuments the 17 th -century buildings of the castle. Towards the mouth old town centre you can visit times; among the most of Santa Maria The village of Bosa lies along the tanneries , a monument of of the river Temo, at the entry the church of Grazie , part of a important monuments there The village of Bonarcado the banks of the river Temo , industrial archaeology. Su of the sea hamlet of Bosa monastery built in 1577 by the are Nuraghe Su Sensu and presents two important the only navigable river of Ponte Ezzu (the old bridge), Marina , there is the church of Jesuits, and the church of San Nuraghe Molas . There are Christian temples: the Sardinia at least until 4 km built in 1871, to Corso S.M. Stella Maris , built in Domenico , built in 1571 and also lots of evidence of the Bizantine sanctuary of from its mouth. Bosa was born Vittorio Emanuele , where 1686. On the Isola Rossa (red that today hosts the Museum Roman age. The old town Madonna di Bonaccattu , thanks to the superimposition stands the cathedral of island) raises an Aragonese of traditional Costume and centre is very nice. built in the 7 th century with a of the Mediterranean cultures. Immacolata , erected in 1809 Tower , one of the biggest of of the Linen Working . Greek-cross plan surmounted The numerous on a Romanesque church. You Sardinia. Along the provincial 13. • Nuraghe by a dome, and the church of witness that the valley of the can also visit the Museum road to you must visit 19. Cabras • Church Santa Barbara Santa Maria , built in river was populated since the “Casa Deriu” , the Art Gallery the beaches of S’Abba of San Giovanni di Sinis Romanesque style in the 12 th Druche and Compoltittu century. This last was part of a and the locality of Torre monastic complex, whose Argentina , with a Spanish

Nuraghe S. Barbara Church of SS. Pietro e Paolo The river Temo Church of S. Giovanni di Sinis

There are still lots of traces of Neolithic Age. Thare are also “Antonio Atza” , the 19 th - The territory of Cabras Nuragic sites in the territory of lots of traces of the century oratory of Rosary , includes the Peninsula of Sinis Bauladu, like the single-tower Church of S. Maria age, with some nuraghi like and Sa Funtana Manna (the Castle of Malaspina with some really important Nuraghe Crabia and the the Monte Furru , Monte big fountain) made in 1882. archaeological sites and important Nuraghe Santa sequence of events can be Nieddu , Santu Lò , Tiria and The 18 th -century church of tower. The promontory of monuments. The sanctuary Barbara , which includes a retraced thanks to the the Nuragic village Sa Carmine keeps a rococo-style Capo Marrargiu is really of San Salvatore has been a wide village and a megalithic “Condaghe di S.M. di Lumenera . A 9 th- century-b.C. altar, some precious paintings important from a naturalistic sacred place since the the wall probably built in pre- Bonarcado”, the book of the inscription attests for the first and pieces of furniture. The point of view because it hosts Nuragic age, as witnessed by Nuragic times. acts of the monastery. time the toponym “ Bs’n ”, a Convent of Cappuccini , built the most numerous group of a that emerges from collective ethnic name of in 1608, keeps its courtyard, its griffon vulture in Italy. the water of a well inside a 14. Bidonì • Roman Temple 16. • Nuraghe uncertain etymology meaning cells and the church of S.M. 4th -century hypogeum. of Monte S’Onnariu Su Montigu “people of Bosa”. In the degli Angeli . The old town 18. • Necropolis The church of San Giovanni The territory of Bidonì keeps a The village of Boroneddu is locality of Messerchimbe is centre is overlooked by the of Campu Majore of Sinis was built in the 6 th noteworthy archaeological surrounded by some nuraghi, sure the presence of a Punic Castle of Malaspina , built in The territory of Busachi keeps century and it still keeps its patrimony. On Monte among which the single-tower and of a Roman centre. At the 1112 by the Tuscan family of lots of evidence of the original Byzantine central S’Onnariu there are the Nuraghe Su Montigu , on a locality of Calmedia , where the the Marquis of Malaspina. Neolithic age, like the domus dome. In the 11 th century remains of a Roman temple south-western hill. South of Medieval town lied, stands the Inside the castle there is the de janas of Campu Majore , it was widened in proto- that probably dates back to 50 the village there is the cathedral of San Pietro and small church of N.S. di with 24 tombs. There are also Romanesque forms. On the b.C., the unique temple in sanctuary of San Salvatore , Paolo , built in 1073 with a Regnos Altos , which keeps lots of Nuragic, Punic and promontory of the peninsula,

50 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 51 you must visit the remains of remains of a necropolis or a megalithic wall near the superimposition of an ogive- in 1831 and with a dome that Bell-Beaker Culture and the the city of Tharros , one of the sanctuary dedicated to some church of San Bartolomeo vaulted tower on a remembers that of the oldest gold necklace of Mediterranean most Sardinian heroes, they were (first built in the 12 th century) corridor-type nuraghe. In the Pantheon. At the centre of the Sardinia. In the 16 th -century important archaeological sites. made with a unique style and make suppose that the village outskirts of the village stands a village there is the church of church of San Michele is kept The city was founded around with a profusion of refined was founded during the pre- 15 th -century Aragonese tower San Sebastiano , built in the an altarpiece made by the the 9 th century b.C., but the details – bracelets, quivers, historical age. and the church of San 17 th century in Ionic style and artist Lorenzo Cavaro in 1501. anchoring place was already sandals, hair tresses, shin Palmerio , built in the 12 th with a Greek cross plan. Of The Museum “Turcus e known by the Nuragic people, guards and enigmatic and 22. • Church century in Romanesque style. particular interest is the Morus” is also interesting, who also built a village, magnetic eyes. of Santa Barbara The hamlet of Zuri has a bridge on the rio Isca , erected exposing the events linked to because it was sheltered both The territory of Genoni peculiar history because in in 1724 on a Roman structure. the Pirates’ incursions in from wind and sea. On the 20. • Church includes some important sites. 1923, during the construction Sardinia. Phoenician city spread the of San Sebastiano On the hill of Santu Antine of the man-made Lake 25. Gonnosnò • Sacred well Punic centre and during the The village of Curcuris there is a Punic structure, Omodeo, it was dismantled of San Salvatore 27. • Archaeological Roman age the city became presents one of the most maybe a temple dedicated to and rebuilt in the present site. At the centre of the village of area of Is Cirquittus an honorary colony. Its decline picturesque old town centre Juno, some fortifications The noteworthy church of Gonnosnò stands the church There are lots of interesting of Sardinia. In the lower of Sant’Elena , built in the 15 th quarter of the village stands century and with a bell tower the church of San erected in 1645. Northwards, Sebastiano , built in the 17 th at the exit of the hamlet of

Church of S. Salvatore Church of S. Barbara Church of S. Pietro di Zuri A menhir from Corte Noa started during the 4 th century dated back to the 4 th century San Pietro too was archaeological sites in the and it was completely b.C. and a chapel dedicated to completely dismantled and territory of Laconi. Inside the abandoned in the 11 th century Church of Assunta San Costantino, built on a rebuilt. Erected in Church of S. Daniele archaeological area of Is when the kings of Arborea’s Nuragic sacred place. In the Romanesque-Lombard forms Cirquittus there are an seat moved to Oristano and century in Gothic-Aragonese village you can visit the with Gothic influences in 1291, Figu there is the Nuragic alignment of and a the bishop’s seat to Santa style but restored many times. church of Santa Barbara and this church presents a peculiar sacred well of San Salvatore . cromlech . The objects found Giusta. In the village you can In the upper quarter stands the Museum of the Horse of 16 th -century bell tower. In the In the surroundings there is in the area, included a visit the Archaeological the church of Assunta , built Giara , with an educational capital between the right side also the the giants’ tomb of Is remarkable collection of Museum , with findings from in 1380 in Gothic style and section about the dwarf and the apsis they carved a Lapideddas . menhirs , are now gathered at Tharros and from the pre- with a beautiful belfry. horse , an endemism of the scene with Sardinian the Archaeological Museum . Nuragic site of Cuccuru is Giara of Gesturi plateau. dancers , perhaps the oldest 26. • Inside the Aymerich Park Arrius , and most of all with 21. • Church evidence of a pagan dance on Necropolis of there are the remains of the the statues called “ Giants of of San Bartolomeo 23. • Church stone material. Bingia ’e Monti Castle of Laconi , built in 13 th Mont’e Prama ”; these statues The village of Flussio is well of San Pietro di Zuri The territory of century but restored in Gothic represent one of the most known in Sardinia thanks to The territory of Ghilarza 24. • Bridge Gonnostramatza includes the forms in the 15 th century. fascinating mysteries of the the asphodel, reed, lentisk, includes some important of Isca domus de janas of Bingia ’e Sardinian and Mediterranean palm and willow weaving art . monuments like Nuraghe At the entry of the village of Monti , known because the 28. • Church archaeology. Found on the hill Some findings of obsidian Orgono , interesting also Gonnoscodina stands the archaeologists found some of San Giovanni of Mont’e Prama, inside the objects and the presence of a because it shows the church of San Daniele , built grave goods belonging to the The toponym “Magomadas”

52 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 53 probably comes from the obsidian in Sardinia. In the was founded during the corridor-type nuraghe dated domus de janas . Northwest of in 1611. Few kilometres far Semitic “maqm hds” (new locality of Su Columbariu , an Roman age. In the 7 th century back to the Middle Bronze the village there is the site of from the village there is the town). In the church of San area rich in minerals and the Byzantine monks built age. The nuraghe is enclosed Sa Domu de Is Caombus : a country church of Angelo , Giovanni at the centre of the fossils, there are some really the church of Sant’Andrea by a quadrilobed bastion crevice in the rock opens built in 1640. village, the queen Eleonora interesting rock masses. The that still keeps some remains forming an inner courtyard. inwardly on two flights of d’Arborea and the King John I most important monument is of the original medieval stairs similar to those found in 39. • Nuraghe of Aragon stipulated a peace the Romanesque church of structure. 35. • Church the Nuragic sacred wells. The Suei treaty in 1388. You can also San Leonardo , built by the of Sant’Antonio symbology and the location The village of Norbello lies visit the church of Santa Victorian monks during the 33. • Nuraghe The village of Montresta was make think to a in a territory really rich in Croce (14 th -15 th century), seat first half of the 12 th century. Friarosu founded among the hypogeic temple. archaeological sites, among of the homonym brotherhood. The territory of Mogorella Planargia’s isolated mountains which several Neolithic 31. • Church includes some Nuragic in1750 after the settlement of 37. • Nuraghe necropolis and numerous 29. • Praetorium of San Paolo monuments, among which the some Greek Catholic families S’Urachi nuraghi, sacred well and of Muru de Bangius At the entry of the village of best preserved is Nuraghe coming from . The In the territory of Narbolia giants’ tombs. The most In the territory of Marrubiu Milis stands the beautiful Mannu . Also interesting is the historical centre keeps some there are many remains of interesting nuraghi are the church of San Paolo , built the Nuragic times. The old between 1140 and 1225 in village was called Nurabulia Romanesque style with in the Middle Ages. Not far Lombard and Tuscan from the village you can visit Nuraghe Tradori , one

Church of S. Giovanni Nuraghe Friarosu Nuraghe Cuccurada Church of S. Pietro there are lots of traces of corridor-type Nuraghe picturesque glimpses with old Predu Cossu and the Suei ; Roman times, among which Friarosu . In the upper quarter trachyte portals. In the upper the last presents a corridor- the Praetorium of Muru de Church of S. Paolo of the village you can visit the quarter of the village you can Nuraghe Tradori type structure, with two Bangius , a 2 nd -century church of San Lorenzo , built visit the church of lateral entries along the building complex and a influences. At the centre of during the 16 th century in Sant’Antonio , with oriental- of the best preserved longest sides and two cells on temporary governor’s seat the village rises the church of Gothic-Aragonese style. shaped domes and some monuments in the area with one side of the corridor. along the road from Caralis to San Sebastiano , built in the architectonic elements that its imposing central tower In the proximity there are the north of Sardinia. Nearby 14 th century in Gothic- 34. • Nuraghe recall the Greek building surrounded by three other the remains of the giants’ the pond of Marceddì , the Aragonese style. Opposite Cuccurada technique. towers and a compound wall. tomb of Suei . beach is delimited by the Old stands the 19 th -century The most important site in the Tower , erected in the 16 th Palazzo Boyl , that belonged territory of Mogoro is 36. • 38. • Church 40. century. to one of the most well- Nuraghe Cuccurada , built in Hypogeum of of San Pietro • Necropolis of known families of the island an area already inhabited Sa Domu de Is Caombus The territory of Neoneli Sas Arzolas de Goi 30. • Church and now utilised as a cultural since the pre-Nuragic times, There are lots of pre-historical keeps some evidence of a The village of Nughedu Santa of San Leonardo centre. as attested by the finding of sites in the territory of noble past with its trachyte Vittoria offers some historical In the territory of Masullas, some remains of obsidian Morgongiori, among which the houses with Aragonese and naturalistic interests, nearby the locality of Conca 32. • Church objects and a big megalithic necropolis of Prabanta , at the decorations. In the upper among which the domus de Cannas , there is one of the of Sant’Andrea wall. The heart of the foot of Monte Arci, that quarter of the village rises the janas Sas Arzolas de Goi , most extensive deposit of The small centre of Modolo monument is composed by a includes a menhir and two church of San Pietro , rebuilt with five tombs. The most

54 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 55 important monument church of Santa Barbara and between the 10 th and the 11 th king Mariano II. Along Via 16 th -century church of Obsidian , with an interesting of the territory is the church the Permanent Museum of century by some people Garibaldi there is the church Assunta and the Oratory of archaeological section. of San Giacomo , in Gothic- Nature . Towards the village of escaping from the city of of Santa Chiara , built in 1343 Anime , a small church of Catalan style. In the locality stands the country Tharros because the pirates’ in French-Gothic style; it was Byzantine origin dated to the 47. • of Pranu Santa Vittoria , church of N.S. d’Itria , with incursions. In 1070 it was the private chapel of the last 8th century and that keeps the Archaeological area where in the Middle Ages a the remains of the first fortified and it became the kings of Arborea. On Via Greek-cross plan. of Santa Cristina Benedictine monastery stood, structures of the hamlet. new chief town of the Parpaglia, the Neoclassical The territory of Paulilatino is there are the remains of the Kingdom of Arborea. Since Palazzo Parpaglia hosts the 45. • particularly rich in Bronze age church of Santa Vittoria . 43. • Church then, and for about four museum Antiquarium Roman Bridge sites. Noteworthy is Nuraghe of San Marco centuries, its history was Arborense , which gathers lots In the territory of Palmas Lugherras , well-known for 41. • Church At the centre of the village of linked to that of the Kingdom of archaeological findings Arborea there were lots of some Nuragic and Punic of San Giovanni Battista Ollastra you can visit the of Arborea. After the defeat from the Neolithic to the evidence of the Nuragic times, findings and for the numerous In the territory of Nurachi church of San Sebastiano , by the Aragonese crown in Middle Ages. On Via del of which poor remains are left. Roman oil lamps ( lugherras ) there are lots of monuments restored in the 17 th century on 1478, Oristano lost its Carmine rise the Monastery In the locality of Mitzienas the found inside the central tower. dated from the Neolithic to an original Romanesque independence and it went and the church of Carmine , archaeologists found several Few kilometres far from the structure, and the small 15 th - evidence of the Roman age, century church of Santa just where the Roman road Severa . In the outskirts of the passed and where a two- village there is the beautiful arcade Roman bridge stands.

Church of S. Giovanni Battista Monument of Eleonora d’Arborea Church of S. Chiara Sacred well of S. Cristina the Roman ages, now kept at through a long period of decay built in 1785. Among the most village there is the well-known the Archaeological- until the Spanish and the important buildings in the archaeological complex of Ethnographic Church of N.S. d’Itria Piedmontese dominations. At square Piazza Eleonora there Antiquarium Arborense Santa Cristina , which Museum“Peppetto Pau” . At the end of the 19 th century, the is the Palazzo Comunale : includes a nuraghe and a the centre of the village rises church of San Marco , dated demolition of the walls and of erected as a synagogue in 46. Pau • Nuraghe Arrius Nuragic sanctuary with the church of San Giovanni back to the 15 th century and the towers changed the 1676, it became the From the village of Pau leaves rounded and rectangular huts, Battista , erected in the 16 th maybe the oldest Sardinian original urban structure. Since Monastery of Scolopi and it the path of Scaba Crobina , perhaps reserved to priests, century on another 6 th - church dedicated to this saint. 1974, Oristano has been the was restored in 1830. On also called “The road of the pilgrims and merchants. century church. Towards the village of chief town of the homonym Piazza del Duomo stands the obsidian” that leads to the The most important rises the province. In the old town Seminario Arcivescovile and area of Sennisceddu , where monument is the well 42. • Church magnificent country church centre, in the square Piazza the cathedral of Assunta , they found extensive outcrops temple , which dates back to of N.S. d’Itria of San Costantino . Mariano, stands the Tower of built in 1228 on a previous of the volcanic stone. There the Late Bronze age and is In the territory of Nureci the Portixedda . Along Via V. Byzantine and then are also several Bronze age enclosed inside an elliptic archaeologist found lots of 44. Oristano • Main there is the Baroque Romanesque building. On Via remains, among which the compound wall. You can enter pre-historical mines and monuments church of Sant’Efisio , erected Sant’Antonio rises the church monuments of Nuraghe the well through a 25-step obsidian and marl workshops. The city of Oristano lies at a in 1793. In Piazza Roma rises of Spirito Santo that dates Arrius , Nuraghe Sa Punt’e Su stairway. The source is at the In the old town centre, with brief distance from the mouth the Tower of San Cristoforo back to the 7 th -8 th century. At Nuraxi and Cuccur’e Sa bottom of the underground lots of old portals , lintels and of the river Tirso. The hamlet (or of Mariano II or Porta the centre of the hamlet of Tanca . In the village you can temple and it presents an murales , you can visit the of Aristanis was founded Manna ), built in 1290 by the Massama you must visit the visit the Art Museum of the ogive-shape roof.

56 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 57 48. • Complex of San Teodoro , of Byzantine territory. You can visit the 16 th - remains of a wide village. The hamlet stands the towers, inside of which there is of Santu Miali origin, just close to the Roman century church of San centre of is Romanesque church of San a big village of circular huts. The territory of the village site of Ghentiana and where a Sebastiano , with a beautiful dominated by the tall bell Leonardo , erected in the 12 th of Pompu includes the great feast is celebrated on polygonal rose window. Also tower of the church of Santa century and widened in the 58. • Archaeological noteworthy megalithic 19 th May. interesting is the Regional Sofia ; the church was rebuilt successive century by the area of Iloi complex of Santu Miali , Museum of the Textile Art . in Baroque style in the 17 th Order of Saint John of The territory of Sedilo is made of a central tower, a 51. • Nuraghe Along the road to Asuni there century on a previous Jerusalem. The village of characterized by an quadrilobed bastion and a Funtanedda are the remains of the Castle Romanesque church. lies around extraordinary wealth of pre- village. In the area they In the territory of Sagama of Medusa , built during the the church of Santa Croce historical sites. Along the road found seven mines and there are lots of Nuragic Byzantine age nearby the only 55. • and the church of San Pietro ; to there are lots workshops where monuments, among which the road to the region. Cathedral of Santa Giusta this last was rebuilt on a 16 th - of nuraghi, among which the ancient people used nuraghi Funtanedda , On the shore of the homonym century structure. In the Nuraghe Lure , a single-tower to dig for and to work Mulineddu and Pascialzos , 53. San Nicolò d’Arcidano • pond , the village of Santa upper quarters of the village monument in very good the obsidian stone . and lots of giants’ tombs. The Church of San Nicolò Giusta is the heir of the there is the church of S.M. of conditions. Noteworthy is the old town centre of the village The village of San Nicolò Phoenician centre of Othoca . Angeli , built in 1483. Archaeological area of Iloi , offers picturesque glimpses with cobbled lanes. You can 57. • visit the church of Arcangelo Nuraghe Nuracale Gabriele , built in 1606, that In the territory of Scano di

Church of San Martino Church of S. Sofia Cathedral of S. Giusta Archaeological area of Iloi

49. • Church d’Arcidano was rebuilt at the It was the Episcopal seat of with one of the widest of San Martino middle of the 19 th century. At the diocese of Oristano from Neolithic necropolis of The village of Riola Sardo lies Castle of Medusa the centre of the village stands 1119 to 1503, as witnessed by Nuraghe Nuracale Sardinia (34 tombs), a along the banks of the pond the church of San Nicolò , the majestic cathedral of complex nuraghe , three and the stream Mare Foghe . keeps some precious works of built in 1763, on the remains of Santa Giusta , built in 1145 in Montiferro there are some giants’ tombs and the Inside the village you can visit art and liturgical furnishing. Nuraghe ’e Luxia . Romanesque-Pisan style. noteworthy remains of the Nuragic source of the church of San Martino , The interior presents three Neolithic and Nuragic ages, Puntanarcu . Sedilo is also dated back to the 16 th century 52. • Castle 54. San Vero Milis • naves divided by columns like Nuraghe Nuracale , one of well-known for its festival but first built in Romanesque of Medusa Nuraghe S’Uraki coming from the Roman cities the biggest of the region of dedicated to Santu Antinu , style. In the territory of Samugheo The most important of Tharros , Othoca and , made of a central during which a horse race there are lots of evidence of archaeological site of San Vero Neapolis . tower and an imposing called “ ardia ” takes place. 50. • Church the Neolithic and Nuragic Milis is the complex of quadrilobed bastion that of San Teodoro ages. In the locality of Pranu ’e Nuraghe S’Uraki , composed 56. Santu Lussurgiu • contains an inner courtyard. 59. • Nuraghe The village of Ruinas keeps Laccos , inside a 4 th -century of a central tower enclosed by Church of San Leonardo The entry to the bastion leads Molineddu lots of interesting A.D. hypogeum, the a five-tower bastion and The territory of Santu to a courtyard where there are The territory of Seneghe was archaeological remains, like archaeologists found a seven- surrounded by a ten-tower Lussurgiu includes the the entries to the lateral inhabited since the Neolithic Nuraghe Nurampei and arm candelabra that makes compound wall, maybe the picturesque mountain hamlet towers. Around the nuraghe age and keeps lots of Nuraghe Sitzerra . You must thing to the presence of a biggest of the island. In the of San Leonardo de Siete there are the remains of a monuments of the Nuragic visit also the country church Jewish community in the surroundings there are the Fuentes . At the centre of the compound wall and some age, among which Nuraghe

58 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 59 Molineddu that presents a Sant’Andrea , the village of 64. • Church Sardinian pope after 69. Soddì • Nuraghe sites, like the domus de janas structure with a central tower is known for the of Rimedio Sant’Ilario. In the hamlet of Sant’Anastasia of Prunittu , with two different and a lateral one. In the village production of olive oil and At the centre of the village of San Vero Congius there are The territory of Soddì includes hypogeic groups of tombs: the you can visit the church of cheese. The nice historical Siapiccia stands the church of the remains of the church of some noteworthy remains of first includes ten tombs, the Immacolata , built in the 19 th centre presents lots of San Nicolò , built in 1605. At San Teodoro di Congius , built the fossil forest of Montigu , second around twenty. The century on a medieval church, murales . the edge of the village there is during the Byzantine age dated back to the Miocene area also includes lots of whose in turn was erected on the church of Rimedio , built between the 6 th and the 9 th Era (25 million years ago), Nuragic monuments, even if a nuraghe. It is also important 62. • Church in an unknown age, that keeps century, next to the ruins of today partially under the water some nuraghi are at present the country church of S.M. of San Ciriaco a singular statue of the the church of San Nicolò of of Lake Omodeo. Some fossil under the water of the man- della Rosa , where a famous The small village of pregnant Madonna. Mira . trunks are gathered before the made Lake Omodeo. In the horse race takes place. Siamaggiore keeps a nice old church of S.M. Maddalena . locality of Su Monte there is an town centre where the 18 th - 65. • Church 67. Sini • Church From the church you can important Nuragic religious 60. Senis • Nuraghe century church of San of San Nicola of San Giorgio follow a panoramic path that complex . On the hill called Senis Mannu Costantino stands, built in In the territory of Simala there The territory of Sini is leads to the single-tower “Su Casteddu de Brogariu ” or The village of Senis keeps a Late Baroque style. Nearby are lots of Nuragic scattered with nuraghi and monument of Nuraghe “Barigadu ” stood a castle built the village there is the country Sant’Anastasia . church of San Ciriaco , first built in Romanesque style. 70. • Church of San Gregorio

Church of S. Andrea Church of S. Nicola Church of S. Teodoro di Congius Nuraghe Nuraddeo nice old town centre, with old monuments. The historical giants’ tombs. The historical on the border of the Kingdom portals in campidanese style. centre keeps some decorated centre is really nice, with old of Arborea. In the upper quarter of the Church of S. Ciriaco portals , the 18 th -century portals and campidanese- Church of S. Gregorio village there is the 16 th -century church of San Nicola , with style houses. In the upper 72. Suni • Nuraghe church of San Giovanni . The 63. • Church the oratory of Rosario and quarter of the village stands At the entry of the village of Nuraddeo Palazzo Baronale , built in of Santa Lucia the Monte Granitico , now the church of San Giorgio , Solarussa stands the The territory of Suni was 1662, keeps its tower, the The name of the village of used as a library and a cultural where a great festival takes Romanesque church of San populated since the Neolithic prisons and the property of “Is Siamanna probably comes centre. There are also some place in April. Gregorio , built in the 13 th age. Along the road to , Nueddas” where there is a from the Sardinian locution noble buildings , among which century in an area where there you can visit the Nuragic Spanish fountain. North-East “sa ‘ia” or “s’ia”, that is the oldest is Palazzo 68. Siris • Nuraghe de Inus are also some Roman remains. complex Nuraddeo , which of the village you can visit “the big road” Uselis -Forum Monserrat Deana , built in The village of Siris, dominated At the centre of the village includes a nuraghe with a Nuraghe Senis Mannu , Traiani that passed close to 1554. by the small plateau of Giara stands the church of San central tower enclosed by a surrounded by the remains of the present village. The nice di Siris , keeps a nice old town Pietro , built in the 17 th century trilobed bastion. All around a village. old town centre keeps the 66. • Church of centre, with the church of San in Late Gothic style. you can distinguish the traces typical campidanese-style San Teodoro di Congius Vincenzo . Along the road to of a wide village. Nearby the 61. Sennariolo • Church architecture. The church At centre of the village of Morgongiori rises Nuraghe de 71. • Necropolis nuraghe there are the domus of Sant’Andrea of Santa Lucia was built in Simaxis stands the church of Inus , a trilobed monument of Prunittu de janas of Chirisconi , with 12 Grown around the 17 th - 1512 but modified in San Simmaco , built in 1833 with a central tower that In the territory of Sorradile one-cell and multicellular century church of the 20 th century. and dedicated to the second presents an ellipsoid plan. there are lots of Neolithic tombs.

60 Sardegna Virtual Archaeology Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 61 73. • Church central tower and two lateral 78. • Church 80. • Church 82. Villanova Truschedu • included in the Regional Park of San Nicola ones surrounded by a wide of Sant’Andrea of Santa Reparata Nuraghe Santa Barbara of Monte Arci and in the In the small village of Tadasuni compound wall. At the entry of the village The village of Usellus was The village of Villanova Geo-mining Park of Sardinia . you can visit the church of of Ula Tirso there is the an important Roman post Truschedu keeps lots of There are lots of old stone San Nicola and the 18 th - 76. • Church church of Sant’Andrea , called Uselis and in the evidence of the Nuragic mines where they used to dig century church of Santa of S.M. Maddalena built in the 18 th -century in Middle Ages it was an period, among which the up and work the obsidian. Croce . The parish house hosts The most important Gothic-Aragonese style. You Episcopal seat. In the noteworthy Nuraghe Santa Also interesting is the the interesting Museum of monument of the village of can also visit the church of historical centre stands the Barbara , which presents a polilobed Nuraghe Brunch’e Sardinian musical Tramatza is the church of Santa Croce and that of 17 th -century church structure made of two towers S’Omu , surrounded by the instruments . S.M. Maddalena , consecrated Santa Chiara . In the territory of San Bartolomeo . linked through a wide ruins of a wide village. in 1388. A medieval there is a noteworthy You must also visit the courtyard. The main tower 74. • Church of sarcophagus is kept inside the masterpiece of the industrial important country church presents a marvellous and 85. • Church San Pietro sacristy. Close to the village engineering, the dyke of of Santa Reparata , inside an intact ogive-shape vault. All of Grazie The village of Terralba was an rises an interesting Roman Santa Chiara , and the area that keeps come traces around the nuraghe there are In the village of Zeddiani you Episcopal seat until 1503. Its bridge , modified in the Middle homonym workers’ village. of a Roman settlement. the remains of a wide village of can visit the church of Grazie , Ages and that keeps a portion circular huts. of the original cobbled road. 83. • Nuraghe 77. • Spanish Melas tower of Foghe The territory of Villaurbana is crossed by the Roman road

Church of S. Pietro Nuraghe Sa Domu Beccia Church of S. Reparata Church of S. Pietro important history is witnessed 79. Uras • Nuraghe On the rio Forraxi stands first built in the 14 th century by the imposing church of Sa Domu Beccia a one-arcade Roman bridge . but restored in the 17 th San Pietro , built in 1822 on the During the Roman age the Nuraghe S. Barbara century, the 17 th -century previous 12 th -century Spanish tower of Foghe village of Uras was an 81. Villa Sant’Antonio • church of San Pietro and the cathedral. At the interior there important post along the Menhir of Curru Tundu Uselis -Forum Traiani and it 13 th -century church of are some capitals that The village of Tresnuraghes road Calaris -Turris Lybissonis . At the entry of the village of keeps lots of Nuragic traces, Sant’Antonio . probably were taken from the keeps the features of the The historical centre Villa Sant’Antonio stands the about sixty nuraghi among nearby Roman city of old peasant hamlet. You can keeps lots of old single-tower Nuraghe Caiu . which the most important is 86. • Roman Neapolis . visit the 19 th -century church campidanese-style houses On the plateau of Monte Nuraghe Melas , with a Necropolis of Santu of San Giorgio and the around the 17 th -century Padrillonis there is an double-tower structure. At Giuanne 75. • Nuraghe church of Santa Croce that church of S.M. Maddalena . important pre-Nuragic the centre of the village you The village of Zerfaliu keeps Tres Bias keeps a wooden altar and Not far from the village you settlement, with an obsidian can visit the church of Santa some Nuragic monuments. The village of Tinnura keeps a 16 th -century crucifix. must visit the remains mine and a necropolis. You Margherita , built in 1712 on The presence of the Roman an interesting old town centre, Towards the mouth of the rio of the Nuragic complex must also visit the menhir of the remains of Romanesque conquerors is still visible at the now embellished by the Mannu , stands the Spanish Sa Domu Beccia , with a Monte Curru Tundu , one of temple. Roman necropolis of Santu numerous recent murales . East tower of Foghe , in the central tower linked the tallest of Sardinia, and the Giuanne , south of the village, of the village there is Nuraghe proximity of which they found to five others and the proto-anthropomorphic 84. Villaverde • Nuraghe nearby the Romanesque Tres Bias , a complex the traces of a Neolithic huts of a wide menhirs in the locality of Cara Brunch’e s’Omu church of San Giovanni , built monument composed of a settlement. village. Bassa and Cardixeddu . The territory of Villaverde is in the 13 th century. •

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LIST OF GUIDES

CAGLIARITANO OGLIASTRA TERRITORY TERRITORY Basilica Nuragic complex of of San Saturnino | Cagliari S’Arcu ’e Is Forros Archaeological area of Sant’Eulalia | Cagliari The harbour and the coastal towers of Arbatax | Tortolì

SULCIS0IGLESIENTE TERRITORY NUORESE Necropolis of TERRITORY Is Pirixeddus | S. Antioco Castle Archaeological area of Fava | Posada of Monte Sirai | Carbonia Giants’ tomb of S’Ena ’e Thomes |

MEDIO CAMPIDANO TERRITORY SASSARESE Nuragic village TERRITORY of | Barumini Necropolis of Castle of Monreale | Sant’Andrea Priu | Church and monastery of San Nicola di Trullas | ORISTANESE TERRITORY Archaeological area GALLURA of Tharros | Cabras TERRITORY Roman baths Megalithic Circles of Forum Traiani | Fordongianus of Li Muri | The area of the basilicas Baldu’s of Cornus-Columbaris | Cuglieri Palace | Sardegna Virtual Archaeology 65