Santadi - Italy

Santadi (CI)

Sardinia (Italy)

Built on several floors on the banks of the Rio Mannu, Santadi preserved examples of traditional architecture in Thrace and schist.
Items from work and furnishings of the house are collected in the Museum of Ethnography Sa Domu Antigua, which has within a point of sale of handicraft products of Sulcis.
In the first fortnight of August we held the wedding or maureddino Mauritanian, whose tradition goes back even seem to some people who move in North African Sulcis in Roman times.
The area around Santadi was inhabited during nuragica as evidenced by pottery and objects in gold, copper and bronze (like a boat and a votive tripod Cypriot style) found in the cave and Pirostu Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.
Santadi was discovered near the fortress Phoenician-Punic Pani Loriga, on a small table in the south-west.
Is Zuddas interesting cave, full of aragonite, stalagmites and stalactites, which can be visited with guides cooperative Monte Meana.
Nearby, in the territory of Villaperuccio, the Necropolis of Monte Essu.
Some domus de Janas retain traces of the original coating on the walls in yellow and red.
Others were intended as a place of worship, like the cave-temple (the first after the climb) with an input of 2 m by 2, an atrium and a large burial chamber.