Even before the Roman invasion, Sardinia was within Rome's trade, but was firmly controlled by the Carthaginians. Trade for the Romans was authorised by the Carthaginian government through a herald or scribe. A first Roman settlement of about 500 civilians on the island occurred around 380 B.C. with the colony of ...
The variety of bread in Sardinia derives from an ancient tradition of processing wheat flour, the cultivation of which in the plains had been practised extensively for millennia. There are hundreds of different types of bread, differing in shape, preparation, ingredients and place of production. The basic ingredients for making ...
In Sardinia, in the north west of the island, near Sassari in the locality of La Crucca, there is the first and only existing reconstruction in Italy of a 2000-year-old Roman fortress from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD: a Roman Castrum. Thanks to the Castrum Romano Association, born out of a passion for ancient Rome, it is possible to get a clear idea ...
Dove si trova Cabras Adagiata sulla riva sinistra dell’omonimo stagno – noto anche come Mari Pontis – Cabras sorge a pochi chilometri da Oristano.Il suo vasto territorio comunale si estende fino al mare e comprende oltre 30 chilometri di costa, includendo l’intera Penisola del Sinis e i suggestivi isolotti disabitati del Catalano e di Mal …
Located 15 km from Cagliari, the Conti Vecchi salt pans are a beautiful example of industrial archaeology in a fascinating environmental context that changes with the seasons. It is a true salt landscape that combines architecture, nature, industry and historical memory in a path of continuity between the past ...
The Rosas mine, located north-east of the town of Narcao, has experienced, over the course of 150 years, moments of extreme wealth and others of extreme crisis. You should know, that the site has been known as a valuable mining resource since antiquity, in fact there are traces of mining exploitation already in Nuragic, Roman and Pisan times. These populations, ...
Il Sulcis Iglesiente all’interno della Provincia del Sud Sardegna, rappresenta una porzione importante della Sardegna sud-occidentale! Questa storica subregione che racchiude in sé 2 territori: il Sulcis più interno e l’Iglesiente più vicino alla costa. Il termine Sulcis deriva dall’antica città fenicia-punica di Sulky o Sulci oggi chiamata Sant’Antioco, comune sito sull’isola omonima. È formata da 27 comuni …
The island of Sant'Antioco, in contrast to other islands, is easily reached without the need for a ferry. In fact, the island is connected to the coastal hinterland of the other 'major' island, Sardinia, by a thin artificial isthmus 5 km long, made up of marine sediments, and at the end by a bridge. Once you cross the bridge, you arrive in the ...
Nella relazione del 1937 fatta dall’architetto Pulitzer e relativa al primo piano regolatore di Carbonia, viene descritto dallo stesso dove sorgerà la nuova città: “in una zona a mezza costa che discende con dolce declivio verso la miniera di Serbariu, aprendosi con ampia vista nel piano sottostante e sul non lontano Tirreno”. I lavori della …
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