A PLURAL HISTORY
Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean basin, covering an area of almost 24km². Even more than its clear waters and its preserved creeks, it is its heights that the people who came from Italy, Corsica, Sicily, France, the north of the Maghreb and Phoenicia, the actual Lebanon, tried to conquer.
There are archaeological sites dating back to several centuries, even millennia before our era. Thus, the Nuragic village of Su Nuraxi and the sacred wells of Santa Cristina testify to the first traces of Sardinian occupation dating from the Bronze Age. In the province of Cagliari, you can find dolmens and menhirs here and there until you reach the ancient necropolis in the province of Sassari, in the northwest of the island.
To discover the traces of a more modern history, go to Oristano, in the western center of the island. This beautiful Sardinian city was built in the Middle Ages under Monte Arci, a dormant volcano, in the manner of a fortress. Its ramparts, watchtowers and ancient gates bear witness to the warlike history of the Judicate of Arborée.