| Sardinia
is not only sea and sun or generally speaking beautiful coasts.
Sardinia is also land of art; you will find archaeologic
remains of different
dominations which was forced to be submitted to, as for istance
the Phoenician one or the Carthaginian and Roman ones; and what
to say about the mistery of the 7000 Nuraghes
built by an ancient civilization dated from 1500 to 500 b.c. or
about the 1000 Domus
de Janas (houses
of witches/fairies), funerary structures hollowed in the rock with
rooms that reproduce those of live people on a smaller scale, the
325 Tombs of Giants,
so called for their size and for the central high stele, built with
big granite slabs, some of wich going back to 3000 b.c. All that
makes Sardinia an astonishing museum under the open sky and in every
part of the island there are some of these beauty spots, equally
distributed on the territory. The greatest archaeologic museums
of Sardinia are the National
Archaeologic Museum
and the Sardinian Museum
of Anthropology and Ethnography
at Cagliari and the Archaeologic
and Ethnographic Museum Giovanni Antonio Sanna
at Sassari, but there are many other museums in minor resorts too.
But Sardinia is reach of monuments
also from the architectonic point of view: wonderful basilicas
(more than 180) built after the year 1000 in the Romanic, Catalan-Aragonese,
baroque and neoclassic styles.
"Furat chi beni de
su mari" (who comes from the sea, steals) say Sardinians
for several years, submitted to any kind of invasions from the
sea; maybe for this fear, not only of Sardinians, but also of
the peoples that settled down in the territory had to defend it,
that Sardinian coast is stutted with hundreds of Coast
Towers.
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