Cuglieri - Italy

Cuglieri (OR)

Sardinia (Italy)

On the western side of Montiferru, in a panoramic sea Cuglieri is a major agricultural and pastoral village, 500 m altitude.
The country lies at the foot of the imposing church of Santa Maria della Neve, the eighteenth-century façade flanked by two bell towers.
Is reached with a walk uphill from the main road winds through narrow alleys and stairways between high stone houses.
From the square of the Hill Barodus front of the church, with sweeping views from the red roofs of the village to the coast between Santa Caterina and Porto Pittinuri Alabe.
Santa Caterina di Pittinuri is a resort built around the bay of white pebbles, enclosed by a limestone cliff dominated by the Torre del Pozzo, built by the Spanish.
This stretch of coast is very scenic with limestone cliffs and sandy beaches and white stones.
The most famous is S'Archittu, a large arch carved into the cliff by the force of water.
A dirt road leading from the state 292 between Santa Caterina Pittinuri S'Archittu and leads to the ruins of the Punic-Roman city of Cornus where, in 215 a. C., was fought the last battle between the Romans and led by Sardo-Punic Amsicora.
In the ninth century the city was abandoned due to the repeated incursions of the Saracens and the inhabitants moved to the hills and founded a new town, Curulis Nova, the current Cuglieri.
The road ends just before the settlement of Paleo-Christian Columbaris while the acropolis of Cornus on the hill to the southwest.
The archaeological area looks abandoned, but there are some sarcophagi and the remains of a basilica with three naves, probably dating from the sixth century.