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Nora

 

About Nora

Basic Information:

• Archeological city: Nora
• Region: Sardegna
• Province: Cagliari
• Municipality: Pula
• Zona: West Italy, In Mediterranean Sea

 

Nora is an ancient city with Nuragic origin and later Punic capital of the people of Nora. It is located on the the promontory of Capo Pula, on the southern coast of Sardinia to the west of Cagliari, now in the town of Pula. The name of this antic city comes from the eponymous hero Norace.

 

Have been found traces of nuragica stating that the site in the Bronze Age (especially a sacred well at the "Spa at Sea").

Traces of Nuragic-Phoenician population refer the eighth century BC (Nora stones, inscribed in an alphabet similar to the Phoenician, with the oldest attestation of the name of Sardinia), while the oldest remains found refer to a cemetery with graves dating from the late seventh and early sixth century BC.

 

Tophet

The Tophet of Nora was discovered in 1889 thanks to a storm, with the excavations carried out in the following year. Here were found many materials, especially some sandstone stones, often with symbolic representations, including in small niches, with hints of the buildings. The materials are dated between the late fifth and the end of the fourth century BC.

The stones of Nora have a preference for symbolic representations: the bethel stone sacred home of the gods, and the sign of Tanit, the Carthaginian goddess of the pantheon, depicted as a triangle surmounted by a circle, often enriched with astral symbols (sun disk and crescent moon). Less frequent depictions of human figures. The stones have different sizes, from small one to a real monuments.

 

Temple of Aesculapius Eshmun - Esculapio

The great Temple Complex is affected by various building, rebuilding and destruction that have complicated the understanding of the general layout and function rooms. The temple is built on different levels. Some interesting environments, mosaic, dating back to imperial age; apse opens on the south side of the building. Duplication of Holies, obtained by placing a partition, assume he has a per-existing Punic in the area, this being a characteristic of sacred architecture of the Punic world.

The excavations have brought to light a series of four small and two larger statues, ceramics, turned out to be of considerable importance, especially chronological order.

 

Sant'Efisio Church in Nora

The church of Sant'Efesio of Nora is located on the beach of Mediterranean Sea near the ruins of Noranot so far from Pula. It is built in the Romanesque style and has three naves. Probably local people started to build it in 1089 and it was sacred in 1102.

In 1656 it was restored thanks to the donation by Alfonso Gualbès Marquis de Palmas, in gratitude for having escaped the plague after evoking the saint.

This church is the place where the procession has the culmination of the Festival of Sant'Efisio.

 

More about The Feast of Sant'Efisio

 

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Going on Sardegna and the beginning of May is a good decision. On this way you can have not so much hot weather there, nice time to travel all around Sardegna and not to miss the most important Feast of Sant'Efesio in Cagliari.

 

Opening Hours

In the Summer: 9.00 - 20.00.

In the Winter: 9.00 - 17.30.

 

Address

Pula (CA)

Sardinia, Italy

☎ +39 070 921470 / 92440304

 

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Su Nuraxi

 

About Su Nuraxi

Basic Information:

• Archeological site: Su Nuraxi
• Region: Sardegna
• Province: Medio Campidano
• Municipality: Barumini
• Zona: West Italy, In Mediterranean Sea

 

Su Nuraxi, better known as The Nuragic Village Su Nuraxi, is a settlement dating back to the Nuragic times between the thirteenth and sixth centuries BC. It is located in the territory of Barumini in Sardinia.

Since 1997 Su Nuraxi of Barumini is under the protection of The World Heritage Sites of UNESCO.

The complex is centered around of three-stored tower built around the 16th century BC. Here Italian archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu discovered a fortified village that for a very long time had been covered by ground and had become a hill. He did the first excavations there in the 1950.

 

TravelMapItaly Advices

The Nuraghi in Sardigna are some very particular kind of construction. You can find also many other Nuraghi in Sardegna in The Valley of The Nuraghi.

Just a few kilometers from the Complex of Su Nuraxi you can visit also the "Sardegna in Miniature" Park.

 

Opening Hours

In the Summer:
May - June: From 9.00 to 19.00,
July - August: From 9.00 to 19.30,
September: From 9.00 to 18.30.

 

In the Winter:
October: From 9.00 to 17.30,
November: From: 9.00 to 16.30,
December - February: From 9.00 to 16.00,
March: From 9.00 to 17.00,
April: From 9.00 to 18.00.

 

Address

Barumini (VS) in Medio Campidano

Sardinia, Italy

☎ +39 070 936 81 28

 

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Terme di Forum Traiani (Baths of Trajan's Forum)

 

About Terme di Forum Traiani

Basic Information:

• Village: Fordongianus
• Region: Sardegna
• Province: Oristano
• Zona: West Italy, In Mediterranean Sea

 

Forum Traiani in Fordongianus is an antic Bath in Sardegna that is rather well preserved. Located between the Valley of Tirso Mount on the natural way of the river and one of the path from Tibula to Othoca since the foundation of the Bath this place have very big importance.

Here, in the Traian Forum, it was found an inscription which shows how the activity of the people of Barbaria was still alive in the first century AD since these were to devote an inspiration probably to the Emperor Tiberius.

 

More about Fordongianus

Today the village of Fordongianus is well also known for its quarries of trachyte red, green and gray. These stones were used for the construction of houses in Fordongianus but also in neighboring countries. Even today, the trachyte is used by the stonemasons of the place, not just to build houses but also for other works of embellishment of buildings.

 

Casa Aragonese (Aragonese House) in Fordongianus

Built at the end of the sixteenth-seventeenth century this House was named for the Gothic-Aragonese decorations Aragonese. The house was inhabited until 1978 and then divided into two parts, one of which now it is a Museum and the other was recently acquired by the Municipality of Fordongianus. The house is preceded by a large porch with columns in trachyte, some were restructured. Even the windows are in red trachyte, decorated with floral motifs and religious.

The most interesting window is that so-called "the couple's bedroom." Inside there are windows made ​​with a special technique called "inflected arch" or "keel" of Arab origin.

 

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In an area near the village of Fordongianus it was found the amphitheater, near the necropolis of late antiquity on which was built in the eleventh century Church of San Lussorio. 

 

Opening Hours

In the Summer: 9.00 - 13.00 and 15.00 - 19.30.

In the Winter: 9.30 to 13.00 and 14.30 - 17.30.

 

Address

Terme, Fordongianus (OR),

Sardinia, Italy

☎ +39 0783 605172/60123

 

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Tharros

 

About Tharros

Basic Information:

• Archeological site: Tharros
• Region: Sardegna
• Province: Oristano
• Municipality: Cabras
• Zona: West Italy, In Mediterranean Sea

Tharros is an archaeological site in the province of Oristano, located in the municipality of Cabras, Sardinia. The city is located in the foothills south of the Sinis Peninsula, which ends with the promontory of Capo San Marco.

Some theories about the archaeological site of Tharros state that the city was founded by the Phoenicians in the eighth century BC Traditionally supported this thesis has recently been revised and subjected to more accurate considerations, especially after the discovery of some portions of the ancient settlement during excavation in the adjacent lagoon Mistras. A submerged wall along approximately 100 meters seems to be part of a port structure much older Phoenician era, in fact, only in 1200 BC the sea level rose, engulfing the existing buildings. So we assume the presence of a settlement proto-Sardinian present there in the Bronze Age

After the colonization of Carthage, the ruins of a previous nuragic village, on top of a hill called Su Murru Mannu (although in the literature is often labeled "muru", the result of a misunderstanding of Taramelli), the Carthaginians established a Tophet, a sacred pool of several typical Punic-Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean, the Tophet are considered an indicator of urbanization.

Despite the difficulties in dating precisely which dates back centuries the initial nucleus, from its construction until abandonment - (which took place in the tenth century AD) - the site was always inhabited: first by the Phoenicians and then the Romans.

The area is now an open air museum and the excavations going on uncovering know more about the past of this city. What you can see above dates to the Roman period or early Christianity. Among the most interesting are the Tophet, the spa, the foundation of the house and part of the area with houses and workshops.

 

Most of the artifacts found during the excavations can be seen at:

• the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari;
• the Antiquarium Arborense in Oristano;
• the Municipal Archaeological Museum Giovanni Marongiu Cabras;
• the British Museum in London where, however, are not exposed.

Tharros was also the capital of the Judge of Arborea until 1070 (at least as reported by Fara and traditionally accepted), when the Judge Orzocco I de Lacon-Zori moved in Oristano its bishopric and the entire population of Tharros. Most famous is said (reported for the first time since Mattei) "Portant de Tharros sas pedras a carros", literally "lead from Tharros stones chariot", demonstrating that Oristano was founded with the material remains of the ancient Phoenician colony.

 

Opening Hours

In the Summer: From 9.00 to 20.00.

In the Winter: From 9.00 to 17.00.

 

Address

Cabras (OR),

Sardinia, Italy

☎ +39 0783 37 00 19

 

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