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Sassari
Sassari ( ; ; ; ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 120,497 inhabitants as of 2025, and a functional urban area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, it contains a considerable collection of art. Since its origins at the turn of the 12th century, Sassari has been ruled by the Giudicato of Torres, the Pisans, as an independent republic in alliance with Republic of Genoa, Genoa, by the Crown of Aragon, Aragonese and the Spain, Spanish, all of whom have contributed to Sassari's historical and artistic heritage. Sassari is a city rich in art, culture and history, and is well known for its palazzo, palazzi, the Fountain of the Rosello, and its elegant neoclassical architecture, such as Piazza d'Italia (Italy Square) and the Teatro Civico (Civic Theatre). As Sardinia's second most populated city, it has a considerable amount of cultural, touristic, commercial and political importance in the island. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica. It has over 1.5 million inhabitants as of 2025. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of Autonomous administrative division, domestic autonomy being granted by a Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian language, Italian and Sardinian language, Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces of Italy, provinces and a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city. Its capital (and largest city) is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese dialect, Algherese Catalan language, Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Sassari
The province of Sassari (; ; ; ; ) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital was the city of Sassari. On 1 April 2025, the province was suppressed in favor of the new Metropolitan City of Sassari, which corresponds to the 66 western ''comuni'' of the province in its 2005-2015 borders; the easternmost 26 ''comuni'' were reorganized as Province of Gallura-Northeastern Sardinia, corresponding to the borders of the former Province of Olbia-Tempio. , the province had a population of 493,357 inhabitants. History In ancient times, between 1600 and 1500 BC, the Nuragic civilization was at its peak in this area. During the Roman domination, the Logudoro region was one of the main grain suppliers of the Western Roman Empire, and was the seat of several legions. In the Middle Ages, the Logudoro region was the center of one of the four quasi-kingdoms in which Sardinia was divided, the Giudicato di Torres or Logoduro, the first capital being Ardara, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Torres
Porto Torres (; ) is a (municipality) and a city of the Province of Sassari in north-west of Sardinia, Italy. Founded during the 1st century BC as , it was the first Roman colony of the entire Sardinia, island. It is situated on the coast at about east of Falcone Cape and in the center of the Gulf of Asinara. The port of Porto Torres is the second biggest seaport of the island, followed by the port of Olbia. The town is very close to the main city of Sassari, where the local University of Sassari, university takes office. Toponymy Historically the settlement was founded with the Latin name "''Colonia Iulia Turris Libisonis"'', composed with Colonia (name of the Colonia (Roman), Roman settlements) Iulia (name of the Julia gens) Turris (litt. "tower", referred probably to a nuraghe built not so far from the town or to the Monte d'Accoddi) and Libisonis (referred to ''Libya'', probably because in the same area there was a Phoenician trading outpost. "''Libya''" is the ancient nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte D'Accoddi
__NOTOC__ Monte d'Accoddi is a Neolithic archaeological site in northern Sardinia, located in the territory of Sassari, Italy. The site consists of a massive raised stone platform thought to have been an altar. It was constructed by the Ozieri culture or earlier, with the oldest parts dated to around 4000–3650 BC. History The site was discovered in 1954 in a field owned by the Segni family. The original structure was built by the Ozieri culture or earlier c. 4000–3650 BC and has a base of 27m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5m. It culminated in a platform of about 12.5m by 7.2m, accessible via a ramp. No chambers or entrances to the mound have been found, leading to the presumption it was an altar, a temple or a step pyramid. It may have also served an observational function, as its square plan is coordinated with the cardinal points of the compass.A. Sinclair & J. Bradbury; ''Megaliths and their Mysteries''; 1979; pp. 109–112; Between 3500 and 3000 BC, the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuragic Civilization
The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age. According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead hypothesize an autochthonous origin. It lasted from the 18th century BC (Middle Bronze Age), up to the Iron Age or until the Roman colonization in 238 BC. Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD, and in some areas, namely the Barbagia, to the 6th century AD, or possibly even to the 11th century AD. Although it must be remarked that the construction of new nuraghi had already stopped by the 12th-11th century BC, during the Final Bronze Age. It was contemporary with, among others, the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, the Apennine and Terramare culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagliari
Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,627 inhabitants, while its Metropolitan City of Cagliari, metropolitan city, 16 other nearby municipalities, has about 417,079 inhabitants. According to Eurostat, the population of the Functional urban area, functional urban area, the commuting zone of Cagliari, rises to 476,975. 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, partly damaged by cave activity, a large Ancient Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Zanche
Michele Zanche ( 1203 - Sassari, 1275) was an Italian politician, best known as a character in Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'', where he is mentioned in Canto XXII of '' Inferno'', in the fifth bolgia of the eighth circle, among the barrators, together with , vicar of Nino Visconti judge of Gallura. He married Simona Doria, from the famous and wealthy Genoese family. Biography No direct ancestry is known. The surname Zanca (which in the documentation also presents the variants ''Thanca'', ''Çanca'', ''Tanca''; the spelling ''Zanche'' is to be understood as the Latin form in the genitive) has been documented in northern Sardinia since the 11th–12th centuries, as testified by '' condaghes'' and other sources in which individuals of servile status are mentioned, as well as local officials, without further specification of their geographical origin and kinship. He was seneschal of King Enzo of Hohenstaufen, husband of the judge Adelasia of Torres: he won her trust and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentiera
Argentiera is a small town and a frazione (hamlet) in the comune of Sassari, in Sardinia, Italy. It is located 43 km west from Sassari, in a narrow valley, on the coast of the Sardinian Sea. History Argentiera is a former mining town, its name comes from the Latin ''argento'', meaning silver. The mine had been exploited since the ancient era, beginning with the Romans. It was reopened in the 19th century by "Società di Corr'e boi", a Belgian mining company. The French writer Honoré de Balzac, visited the village in 1838. The most florid period for the mining village was the 1940s. The town declined after World War II, and the mine was closed in 1963. Today the town is the home of a few small businesses who get most of their income from tourism. It is one of the most important examples of industrial archaeology in Sardinia, it is included in the Geological-Mining Park of Sardinia and preserved by UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platamona
Platamona ( Sassarese: "Pratamona or Prattamona") is a coastal area in northern Sardinia, Italy, located along the Gulf of Asinara, in the municipality of Sassari, between the commune of Sorso and Porto Torres. The name ''Platamona'' comes from the Greek ''platamon-onos'', that means flat surface. It is constituted by a beach of white sand and shells, surrounded from a wood of maritime pines and thousand-year trees of junipers, and a retro-dunal lagoon, where you can practise birdwatching and fishing. The coast is a Site of Community Importance (SCI) and the lagoon a protected oasis. The tourist development of the place began after 1950, when the malaria was overcome. Today the beach is the principal tourist seaside location in the municipality of Sassari, there are present some hotels, restaurants, campings, bed & breakfasts, supermarkets and resorts, and also one air field, with a flying school, an Emergency Medical Service ambulatory, a thalassotherapy treatment centre a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giudicato Of Torres
The Judicate of Logudoro or Torres ( or ''Torres'', ''Rennu de Logudoro'' or ''Logu de Torres'') was one of the four kingdoms or ''iudicati'' into which Sardinia was divided during the Middle Ages. It occupied the northwest part of the island from the 11th through the 13th century, bordering the Gallura to the east, Arborea to the south, and Cagliari to the southeast. Its original capital was Porto Torres. The region is still called Logudoro today. Logudoro was the largest and earliest of the ''iudicati'' but also the second to be subsumed by a foreign power. It was divided into twenty ''curatoriae'', ruled by ''curatores''. History Sardinia was an imperial province of the Byzantine Empire until the 9th century, when the Arabs and Berbers began pursuing aggressive policies of expansion and piracy in the Mediterranean. The gradual conquest of Sicily by these groups from 827 on effectively cut Sardinia off from the central government and military might of the Empire, and the Byza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain Of The Rosello
The Fountain of the Rosello is a fountain in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, considered the symbol of the city. It is located at the end of the Rosello valley next to the ancient district of the city. History It was built among 1603 and 1606 by Genoese craftsmen on the site of a preexisting source along the valley. To bring the water from the Rosello to the houses was a team of 300 water carrier that filled their barrels that loaded on the pack saddle ] A pack saddle is any device designed to be secured on the back of a horse, mule, or other working animal so it can carry heavy loads such as luggage, firewood, small cannons, or other things too heavy to be carried by humans. Description Ide ... of their donkeys. The fountain was also used by the housekeepers to make the laundry of garments and laundry. {{coord, 40.73115, N, 8.56072, E, source:placeopedia, display=title Fountains in Italy, Rosello Buildings and structures in Sardinia Sassari Equestrian statues in Italy [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
