Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Oristano
Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Oristano
Oristano is an Italian city and comune, and capital of the Province of Oristano in the central-western part of the island of Sardinia. It is located on the northern part of the Campidano plain. It was established as the provincial capital on 16 July 1974. As of December 2010, the city had 32,165 inhabitants. The economy of Oristano is based mainly on services, agriculture, tourism and small industries.
Oristano was previously known by the Byzantines as Aristanis (in Byzantine Greek: Αριστάνις), and founded close to the ancient Phoenician settlement of Othoca (now Santa Giusta). It acquired importance in 1070, when, as a result of the frequent Saracen attacks, Archbishop Torcotorio made it the seat of the bishopric, which was previously in the nearby coastal town of Tharros. It also became the capital of the giudicato (judiciary, equivalent to a Duchy or Kingdom) of Arborea. Consequently, fortifications were designed, but the building thereof went on until judge Mariano II rose to power.
In medieval times Oristano vied for power over the whole island of Sardinia, and therefore waged wars against the other Sardinian kingdoms which culminated in the attempt to conquer the whole island during the reign (1347–75) of Mariano IV and that of his son Hugh III (1376–1383) and his daughter Eleanor (1383–1404). The giudicato of Arborea held out to be the last Sardinian kingdom (Giudicato) to cease to exist in 1420, about 10 years after the battle of Sanluri. It was transformed in Marchesato by the Aragonese and conquered, following a revolt by the last marquess Leonardo Alagon, by the Catalan troops of the Kingdom of Aragon, in 1478 after the battle of Macomer.
Thereafter, Oristano's history was that of the island of Sardinia, characterised by the Aragonese-Spanish (until 1708) and Piedmontese (from 1720) dominations, and then the unification of Italy. In April 1921, David Cova, Emilio Lussu, Camillo Bellieni and other Sardinian veterans of World War I founded in the city the Sardinian Action Party.
The Tower of St. Christophoros, otherwise known as Tower of Mariano II, was built in 1290, is 19 metres (62 ft) tall and the most striking remaining evidence of the old walls built at the time of the Giudicato, as it was one of the main gates thereof.
St. Mary's Cathedral (1130) was rebuilt during the reign of Mariano II after being destroyed in a siege. Of the original structure of Mariano, only parts of the apse and base of the campanile are left, as well as the Gothic Chapel of the Rimedio, which houses some medieval sculptures.
Oristano can be reached by train from Sardinia's ports of Olbia and Porto Torres, and the island's main cities Cagliari and Sassari. From Oristano all villages of the province can be reached by buses departing the bus station close to centrally-located Piazza Mannu. Moreover, a private concern provides a twice-daily bus service to and from Cagliari Elmas Airport. The journey takes approximately 2 hours.
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Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Nora
Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Nora
Nora is an ancient Roman and pre-Roman town on a peninsula near Pula, near to Cagliari in Sardinia. In his Description of Greece, Pausanias, a Greek-Roman geographer of the second century, narrates the mythological foundation of the city: After Aristaeus, the Iberians crossed to Sardinia, under Norax as leader of the expedition, and they founded the city of Nora. The tradition is that this was the first city in the island, and they say that Norax was a son of Erytheia, the daughter of Geryon, with Hermes for his father.
The area was previously occupied by a village of indigenous Sardinians, but soon became an emporium and then a Phoenician city. Especially after the conquest of Carthage, Nora flourished, as (along with Bithia near Chia) it was the first stage on the sea route from Carthage to Sardinia and its most important city, Cagliari. The Nora Stone, a Phoenician inscription found at Nora in 1773, has been dated by palaeographic methods to between the late 9th century and early 8th century BCE, and has been interpreted as referring to a Phoenician military victory and conquest of the area.
After a period of domination by Carthage, the town came under Roman control after the conquest of Sardinia in 238 BCE. The city is mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a Roman-period road map. It went into decline from the 4th century CE after the Vandal conquest of Sardinia. According to the Ravenna Cosmography, after the Arab conquest of Carthage the city lost its economic function and became a simple fort (Nora praesidium). Nora appears to have been abandoned during the 8th century. Its toponym, however, remained in the name of a curadoria (main administrative division) of Judicatus of Caralis at the beginning of the second millennium. Nora was an important trading town in its time, with two protected harbours, one on each side of the peninsula. Several different building styles can be seen in the excavated buildings.
Because the southern part of Sardinia is sinking into the Mediterranean Sea, a substantial part of the former town is now under the sea. A similar fate has befallen nearby Bithia, which is now completely submerged. A significant part of the town of Nora situated on land belonging to the Italian Army has not been excavated. The ruins of Nora are an open-air museum, and the remains of the theatre are occasionally used for concerts in the summer.
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Dolceacqua (Italy) Travel - Doria Castle
Take a tour of Dolceaque Doria Castle in Dolceaque, Italy - part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
Lying amidst the lush greenery and architectural heritage of Dolceacqua is an alluring castle.
The glorious Doria castle was first mentioned in the 12th century in an ancient text, and stands on the site of a previous feudal domicile.
In the year 1270, Oberto Doria, a Genoese captain bought the property and it was owned by this family for nearly 300 years.
The castle was besieged and damaged in the 14th century by a neighboring king seeking to rule the Doria estate.
In the 16th century one of the last members of the Doria family to own the castle, expanded its structure to include a stronghold and two identical towers.
Since the mid 20th century, the castle has been owned by the Town Hall of Dolceacqua, and is now used by the government and locals for private functions.
Su Romanzesu complesso nuragico, Bitti - Sardinia, Italy
Un incontaminato scrigno naturale di sughere e suggestivi affioramenti granitici custodisce uno dei più preziosi ed affascinanti lasciti della civiltà nuragica: il Villaggio-Santuario di Romanzesu (Bitti (NU) Sardegna-IT). Sette campagne di scavo effettuate tra la fine degli anni ’80 ed il 2001 hanno riportato in luce una modesta porzione della superficie archeologica residua, estesa diversi ettari, restituendo una complessità monumentale sconosciuta a buona parte dei pochi centri cerimoniali di epoca nuragica noti nell’isola. I riferimenti cronologici ad oggi disponibili fissano nel corso del XV sec. a.C. la fase d’impianto dell’abitato nuragico, al XIII-XII sec. a.C. la sua trasformazione in villaggio-santuario ed infine agli inizi del VII sec. a.C. il momento dell’apparente abbandono. Una straordinaria ricchezza di soluzioni architettoniche caratterizza sia gli edifici sacri sia le strutture a destinazione d’uso non cultuale con, in alcuni casi, monumenti di tipologia unica o che propongono varianti inedite rispetto a quanto già documentato altrove. Le architetture utilizzano in modo pressoché esclusivo il granito locale e pur senza riproporre le raffinate tessiture murarie della fonte sacra di Su Tempiesu, del pozzo di Santa Cristina o di altri edifici in opera cosiddetta isodoma, sono di grande impatto visivo e affascinano per l’originalità progettuale e per la complessità e le dimensioni dell’esperienza costruttiva. Il cuore monumentale di Romanzesu è costituito dal tempio a pozzo con annesso uno straordinario allestimento articolato in più ambienti gradonati che definiscono con accenti di evidente teatralità lo spazio cerimoniale per riti collettivi legati al culto delle acque. Due tempietti a pianta rettangolare del tipo cosiddetto a megaron, un grande recinto sub-ellittico con sacello centrale e probabile percorso rituale “labirintico” incentrato su ingressi sfalsati e infine un’ulteriore struttura a pianta rettangolare associata a tre betili, connessa forse ad un culto eroico e legata ad un eccezionale rinvenimento di perle d’ambra, completano il panorama degli edifici sacri di Romanzesu. Capanne a pianta circolare e ovoidale, una grande abitazione con tre ambienti aperti su un cortile comune, cinque grandi capanne delle riunioni con sedile perimetrale e in due casi con focolare centrale forniscono infine le prime indicazioni su un vasto tessuto insediativo dalla fisionomia ancora in gran parte indistinta.
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