Sant'Antioco, land of beauty. land in Sant'Antioco is a satisfying feeling of joy that is renewed for more than two thousand years.
Nuragic, Phoenician, Roman and even one another Savoy in a territory yet to be explored. Daring, those extraordinary Phoenician navigators, discoverers of beauty but also by their duly marked as "cornerstones" of their "way of the sun." There's no place they do not seem to reveal that-still-a piece of heaven on earth to be pulled down then to the sea. As the island of S. Antioco Sardinia.
"Su Para sa Mongia and"
These two menhirs (stone messoe planted vertically in the ground) or aniconic symbols (ie symbols that do not allow images) associated with the fertility religion of pre-nuraghic people (3000 BC) .
The first inhabitants were the cult of Mother Goddess. It represents nature, the earth, the sea, the seasons, fertility, the principle of life. Often in the vicinity of villages, were placed two large betili symbolizing the harsh principles of life, the male and female. An example of this in the roviamo betili that lie at the entrance of the isthmus of Sant'Antioco, known as "Up and para sa Mongia.
It is assumed that there should arise near a village of huts and that the two betili demonstrated the presence of the gods in the community.
The Tophet
tophet The word is a word of biblical origin, which indicated a place, near Jerusalem, in which children were burned and buried, and today, by convention, indicates the sacred areas of old Phoenician, Punic found in Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia and were recovered in which urns containing burnt bones of children and animals. The Tophet Sant'Antioco, used since dall'Vili to the first century. BC, looks like an open area, located on the far northern outskirts of the town, which is supported by a trachytic rock called "Sa Guardia de is Pingiadas" (the guard of the pan) because of the large number of polls urns that surfaced from the ground. So far about 3,300 have been reconstructed.
The polls keep burnt bones of children, sometimes small animals and some votive object. The bones have long been attributed to a bloody sacrificial rite, which involved the ritual killing of the first born, while today the osteological survey shows that most of the children were cremated in Tophet stillborn or died of natural causes in early age and that the animal remains were a component of the rite itself.
urns, usually deposited between the natural cavities of the rock, are often accompanied by stone stele (now there are about 1,700, in the museums of Cagliari and Sant'Antioco) bearing human images, symbols and more rarely animals related to the ritual that took place in the sacred area.
All of the stele of Sulci is one of the most interesting known, and the Archaeological Museum you can admire a selection that, as restricted, representing the main types and iconographic developments elaborated in the shops Sulcis stonecutters.
Ipogeo Village is a charming village made up of Punic tombs carved on the rock and re-used in the seventeenth century, as homes by the poorer classes of the country until the year 1950.
With the improper name of "caves" refers to that part of the Punic necropolis consists chamber tombs excavated in the tufa, transformed by the poorest families of S. Antioco.
The original extension of the necropolis was more than six hectares, whereas on average every grave occupied forty feet square you can 'assess the number of tombs were about fifteen hundred. Based on what 'the people at that time a resident can' be estimated in 9000 to 10,000 inhabitants, placing the old Sulky between the cities 'most' populous and widespread of the Mediterranean.
addition to tombs used as dwellings, two areas that are currently visible in the necropolis are situated, one of the hill fort of Savoy and the sea, the other under the basilica dedicated to Saint Antioco.
lions Sulci These are two big lion statues Punic made with materials obtained from local quarries around the fourth century. BC
Their original location was to be the sides of the north gate of the walls.
The statues were found icons in a situation that is clearly to be reused in the necropolis.
Most likely the lion was once a guardian (along with a sculpture sister) of the door of a tomb monument.
The Roman fountain Italy Located in the square or piazza "Is Solus" the most popular with antiochensi, perhaps not surprisingly, because of the presence of this important monument.
The Roman fountain has been since its construction and until recently, the country's most important water resource.
share which now opens the fountain, three meters above the present level of the square is therefore the old pavement feasible in Punic and Roman times. No one will escape the importance of public sources already available in old age as well. It should be pointed out the importance of fresh water for the ancient seafaring and should also be noted that the ancient porto era praticamente adiacente alla cosiddetta Fonte romana. Tuttavia, l’aspetto attuale dell’impianto idrico nulla ha di romano né di antico, poiché si tratta di un rimaneggiamento eseguito nella prima metà del secolo scorso.
II ponte romano Percorso tutto l'istmo, poco prima di arrivare in paese, sulla destra, si può apprezzare il Ponte romano" (II - III sec d. C. ), utilizzato sino agli anni Cinquanta quale unica strada ili accesso. Le pietre in arenaria delle arcade costituiscono la parte originaria, mentre il resto è il frutto dei continui rifacimenti che il ponte ha subito nel corso della sua storia.
I ponti romani occupano un posizione of primary interest in the Roman roads of Sardinia. These works of art of the road network whose membership of Roman architecture is easily comparable with those of other provinces, despite avutisi alterations over the centuries. The Roman bridge of Sant 'Antioco, known to all as "Pontimannu" represents, as do the other bridges in Sardinian, a unique not only in its form but also for the position in the area.
Unlike the other connecting the mainland with an island and not the ford rivers or hilly. The name recalls the existence of other bridges, which are smaller, which bound the island of Sardinia to the mainland through Sant'Antioco the union of the isthmus of the islets. Of its importance and the need of restoration, we know a few years after restocking.
Fortino strong Savoy Savoy II, also known as the "Guardia de Pisu on" or "castle" overlooking a cliff 60 meters high. the village of Sant 'Antioco. It 's a small building of 270 sqm., Built in 1812 on an existing structure to protect the Punic city from barbarian attacks. A sentry at the entrance controlled more loopholes allowing the control of a vast stretch of sea.
On 16 October 1815, at the last raid in Sardinia Tunisian pirates, the fort was the scene of a bloody battle, after which the garrison commander, Melis Efisio Alagna, after a valiant and heroic resistance, was killed by barbaric. At least five residents of Sant'Antioco were taken prisoner and taken to Tunis in expectation of redemption.
Restored recently was included in the tour of the archaeological Sant'Antioco which includes a visit to the Ethnographic Museum, and the underground village, in fact, Fortino of Savoy.
Travelling with car on, and 'always advisable to book well anticipo.I main ports in Sardinia in order of importance Cagliari, Porto Torres, Olbia, Golfo Aranci, Arbatax, Palau. While the plane with the main airport of Cagliari-Elmas, especially in summer, and 'well connected with major Italian and European cities. Have recently been activated even low-cost airlines. I
here shows the mode of arrival on the island princincipali:
- Coming from Cagliari (Elmas Airport)
- arrival from Porto Torres (Ship)
- Coming from Olbia (Ship)
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