Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Carbonia
Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Carbonia
Carbonia is a town and comune, which along with Iglesias was a co-capital of the former province of Carbonia-Iglesias, now suppressed and incorporated in the Province of South Sardinia. It is located in the south-west of the island, at about an hour by car or train from the regional capital, Cagliari.
Carbonia was officially inaugurated on the 18 December 1938 by the Fascist regime. Benito Mussolini ordered the building of the city and was present at its inauguration. The city was built in order to provide housing for the workforce of the nearby mines. The name Carbonia comes from the Italian word for coal, a resource that is abundant in this area.
The city grown considerably since its birth in 1938, due to mass immigration of people from the rest of the Island and mainland Italy (in particular from the regions of Veneto, Sicily, Abruzzo, Marche, Basilicata and Campania), reaching about 45,000 residents in 1951. Currently it has a population of over 28,000 inhabitants.
Since the mines' closing during the 1970s, Carbonia has had to deal with a high unemployment rate. After the closure of the mines the town's economy was converted on the metallurgical industry, so today most Carbonians find their employment in the heavy industry, but also in the tertiary sector.
Main sights of Carbonia :
Monte Sirai, a hill in the surroundings of the city that hosts the ruins of a Phoenician-Carthaginian built-up area
Domus de janas in the surroundings of Sirri and Monte Crobu
Romanesque church of Santa Maria di Flumentepido (11th century)
Former Serbariu coal mine, now turned into a museum and a site of industrial archaeology
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Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Fluminimaggiore
Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Fluminimaggiore
Fluminimaggiore, Frùmini Majori or Flùmini Majori in sardinian language, is a comune in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 kilometres northwest of Cagliari and about 30 km north of Carbonia.
Fluminimaggiore borders the following municipalities: Arbus, Buggerru, Domusnovas, Gonnosfanadiga, Iglesias. The Temple of Antas is located in the Fluminimaggiore territory. There are several museums in the town, including a paleontology museum.
From the mountains to the sea, passing through natural monuments, prehistoric testimonies, Phoenician-Punic and Roman heritage and industrial archeology. Fluminimaggiore is a center of three thousand inhabitants lying in the valley of the river Mannu . The river flows inside the village and sets the shovels of the Zurru Licheri mill , dating back to 1750, now an ethnographic museum: here you will learn about local culture and history.
The current settlement was born in 1704 when the viscount Asquer granted to rebuild the village of Flumini Major, uninhabited for a century. From the end of the 19th century the agricultural village turned into a mining support center: you will visit a symbolic place of Sardinian mining history with around thirty sites, witnesses of a sudden and ephemeral development. The ghost village of the Malacalzetta mine stands out .
The territory rich in woods, starts from the slopes of Mount Linas and descends towards the coast with beautiful landscapes. In the coast there are several coves: Guardia is Turcus , sa Perdixedda Manna and sa Perdixedda Pittica ('the big and small pebble ') and the tourist village of Portixeddu, ten kilometers from the town. The long beach, cut in half by the mouth of the river Mannu , is of ocher-colored fine sand, bordered by a cliff with natural pools, which plunges into the crystalline sea. Five kilometers from the village, you will explore the fairytale caves of su Mannau , a karst complex 'sculpted' 540 million years ago.
It is characterized by naturalistic beauty, speleological interest and archaeological importance (a hall was a hypogeum temple). You will immerse yourself in the magic that rests in the subsoil between saloons studded with huge limestone formations and with unique shapes, stalactites and stalagmites, crystals and ponds. The caves were connected to the temple of Antas, one of the greatest monuments of Sardinian Antiquity, which you will reach by a path already traced by the Romans (four kilometers from Su Mannau ) .
In a lush valley, you will admire a flight of three shelves (originally more) and a podium adorned with elegant columns delimiting the votive areas. Born as a sanctuary nuragico (ninth century BC), the Carthaginian lived phases and Punic-Hellenistic. During the Roman era the temple knew its maximum splendor. A nearby tomb has returned the bronze of a deity: perhaps the Sardus Pater or the Punic god Sid , transposition of the local divinity Babai . In the summer, Antas Music Festival is staged in this scenario .
In Archaeological museum on display other than those of the temple, prenuragic, nuraghic, Phoenician-Punic, Roman and medieval finds of the territory. Also worth visiting is the paleontological museum with reconstruction of the Palaeozoic marine environment. The most felt events are: fires of St. Anthony the Abbot (16 January), rites of Holy Week and feasts of St. Anthony of Padua (June) and St. Mary of the Assumption (August).
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The mining tunnel of Museum of mining - Iglesias (Sardinia - Italy)
The mining tunnel of the Museum of mining in the school of mining Giorgio Asproni
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The Iglesiente is one of the most important mining areas in Italy, especially for lead, zinc and silver minerals. The development of the mining industry and the need for qualified personnel led to the foundation of the Mining School in Iglesias in 1871. In 1934 the students were engaged into excavating some tunnels in the basement of the school. In the Museum of Mining Art, the APIMMG (Mining Surveyors & Mining Geotechnicians Association) has recreated some typical environments and displayed a collection of mining tools and machinery, original laboratory equipment, models used for educational purposes in the school and a huge quantity of archival documents and photographs.
By walking through the galleries and visiting the exhibitions under the guidance of the Association experts, everyone can experience unique sensations and get a deeper insight into the human, social and scientific aspects of the mining era in Iglesiente .
Opening times :
Every day by reservation
June to September: Saturday and Sunday 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Tel. +39 347 5176886
E-mail apimmg@tiscali.it
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Cagliari (UK: , US: ; Italian: [ˈkaʎʎari] (listen); Sardinian: Casteddu [kasˈteɖːu]; Latin: Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 155,000 inhabitants, while its metropolitan city (including Cagliari and 16 other nearby municipalities) has more than 431,000 inhabitants. According to Eurostat, the population of the Functional urban area, the commuting zone of Cagliari, rises to 476,974.
Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of Sardinia.
An ancient city with a long history, Cagliari has seen the rule of several civilisations. Under the buildings of the modern city there is a continuous stratification attesting to human settlement over the course of some five thousand years, from the Neolithic to today. Historical sites include the prehistoric Domus de Janas, very damaged by cave activity, a large Carthaginian era necropolis, a Roman era amphitheatre, a Byzantine basilica, three Pisan-era towers and a strong system of fortification that made the town the core of Spanish Habsburg imperial power in the western Mediterranean Sea. Its natural resources have always been its sheltered harbour, the often powerfully fortified hill of Castel di Castro, the modern Casteddu, the salt from its lagoons, and, from the hinterland, wheat from the Campidano plain and silver and other ores from the Iglesiente mines.
Cagliari was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1324 to 1848, when Turin became the formal capital of the kingdom (which in 1861 became the Kingdom of Italy). Today the city is a regional cultural, educational, political and artistic centre, known for its diverse Art Nouveau architecture and several monuments. It is also Sardinia's economic and industrial hub, having one of the biggest ports in the Mediterranean Sea, an international airport, and the 106th highest income level in Italy (among 8,092 comuni), comparable to that of several northern Italian cities.It is also the seat of the University of Cagliari, founded in 1607, and of the Primate Roman Catholic archdiocese of Sardinia, since the 5th century AD.