November
THE SARDINIAN TOWN
"CARBONIA"
Placed
in the part western south of Sardinia, Carbonia is the most important center
of the Sulcis. The city rose following the sudden increase of the extractive
activity in the archaeological Sulcis. The archaeological area of great
importance it is “Mountain Sirai”, whose testimonies are represented
by some domus de janas that go up again at the end of the period Neolithic (2.500
a.Cs. around). The colony of the carbolic, strongly integrated to the community
nuragica (prehistoric period) preexisting, she had founded around the
750 a.C. and destroyed around the 520 a.C. from the Cartaginesi. These last
reconstructed it and they lived you, strengthening it around the 360 a.C. and
reconstructing it integrally according to an unitary urbanistic plan around
the 250 a.C., up to the 110 a.C. around, moment in which they were forced to
abandon it, perhaps subsequently to a deportation from the Romans, dominators
of Sardinia already from the 238 a.C. The installation of Mountain Sirai is
composed of three principal areas: the inhabited area, the necropolis and the
tofet. The inhabited area occupies the southern part of the plateau and is accessible
through the door north, a corridor strengthened open on the northern side of
the center. To the inside the most important plaza is met at first, dominated
by the temple of Ashtart, founded by the carbolic to their arrival, but that
show as the rest of the inhabited area, the aspect that was given him from the
last reconstruction of the city, happened around the 250 a.C. Ended the visit,
the government one goes beyond each other and it goes there toward the station
of services IP, possibility of rich breakfast and restocking also of gas auto,
to enter to Carbonia and to visit the city and the museums. From the shelter
under-rock of Su Corroppu of Sirri finds originate between the
most ancient some Sardinian Neolithic, while the culture of Saint Michael is
represented by the finds of the necropolises of Mountain Crobu and of
Cannas of Sotto. They are besides present two important private
collections: the Collection Doneddu, that assembles besides the materials of
some outfits of the necropolis to domus de janas of Locci Santus that they go
up again to the Enolitico and the Ancient Bronze and the Collection Pispisa
that understands numerous finds of the age of the Bronze, together with numerous
deriving testimonies from the installations of the age of the carbolic and punics
of Mountain Sirai, Saint Antioco and Bithia. "Villa Sulcis" constitutes
the Museum of the excavations of the neighbor besides situated phoenician and
punic of Mountain Sirai, of which primarily exposes the outfits recovered in
the necropolises. To the installation it is possible to enter virtually also
through two stations multimediali, that tell, thanks also to an ample outfit
of images and reconstructions, the history of the site through the material
culture of the Carbolic and the Cartaginesi, as he has revealed in more than
thirty years of excavation. Trilobiti (shellfishes fossils), archeociatine,
brachiopodi and graptoliti (sea animals that they have a separated shell in
two valves, with fleshy shank to settle down to the fund), the first cefalopodis
(class of sea molluscs with the head furnished of two big eyes and crowned of
tentacles often provided of suckers), the ferns of the carboniferous one, fishes,
repent, admonished, the bear of the caverns and the dwarf elephant, are often
the spectacular testimony of the biological evolution on the Earth.
ITINERARY
BITTI, BUDDUSO', PATTADA
ARCHAEOLOGY, GRANITE, KNIVES
Bitti, Buddusò, Pattada, three
centers of Sardinia always felt to name, 
visited
rarely because out of the big streets of communication, but interesting for
a visitor looking for places rich in history, traditions, craftsmanship. Placed
in the homonym Barbagia, Bitti is attainable taking the National Road 339 to
the height of the alternative for Nuoro or, more easily, diverting for Lula
on the Road National 131 encore. The country introduces numerous reasons of
interest: the parsonage of the parish one of Saint George that entertains a
harvest of objects of art and local archaeology, the church of Saint Cross with
altar in wood, the
Sanctuary of the Miracle and five rural churches gathered in few meters, in
the zone of Babbu Mannu few out of the country. On the government one
that conducts to Buddusò, to the Km 54, around 10 Kms from Bitti, he
is met the poster that points out of to turn to the left for visiting the archaeological
complex of Su Romanzesu that reaches each other after around two kilometers
of asphalted road. Su Romanzesu it is a complex housing nuragico (prehistoric
construction) spread out for over seven hectares, with hundred huts, a building
of cultural use to well, two temples to megaron and a vast space for ceremonies
contained in a big enclosure. The ceremonial complex is constituted by a sacred
well with rising with coverage to tholos of which nineteen rows remain in blocks
of granite. The building weaving leans on the rock from where the source gushes
out; from here part a gully-corridor, with lines of steps on the two sides and
long 42 meters, that it connects the well with a sub-circular basin, originally
paved and with a staircase of six rows of stone. This big tub picked up the
water of the well and probably she was used for ablutions ritual and other ceremonies.
Awry of the well some big huts are found, all to circular plant, with paved
floor, 
seats
of stone along the circumference and big central hearths. The dating lets her
go up again to the XVI sec. a.C., therefore to a preceding period the construction
of the well. Returned on the National Road 339, to the Km 45, the complex nuragico
of Loelle is met, constituted by the nuraghe with the village of circular huts
and two graves of giants. The turret, originally to two plans, it had the coverage
to dome or tholos. After few kilometers it is reached Buddusò, situated
to 700 meters on the level of the sea. Placed in the southern part of the plateau,
Buddusò introduces an intact historical center, with the paved roads,
the severe buildings built in granite and the ornate plazas of sculptures entirely
in stone realized by deriving artists from the whole world. Left Buddusò,
it goes there toward Pattada, not before having diverted for the place Iselle,
interesting zone for the presence of a nuraghe and varied domuses de janas dug
in the granite rock. Pattada is the tallest commune of the province of Sassari:
the residences are leaned out on streets and steep alleys that, once they had
covered of solos pebbles, the domestic architecture is characterized from back
courtyards, masonries in granite with face to sight and embellishments in trachite
with friezes and coats of arms. To West of the inhabited area the fraction of
Bantine is found, the only site survivor to the accorpamento toward Pattada
of all the villages of the zone. The first line of the path that connects the
two places still preserves the traces of the Roman road that Castro united,
the actual Oschiri, to the Roman station of Aquae Lesitanee, the actual
Benetutti. Interesting the visit to one of the numerous artisan laboratories
where the knife is created pattadese Sa Resola.
