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Tharros Archaeological Site and Torre di San Giovanni di Sinis

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Tharros Archaeological Site and Torre di San Giovanni di Sinis

Tharros Archaeological Site and Torre di San Giovanni di Sinis

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    Location: Crabas/Cabras, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy

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    June 4, 2024

    The archaeological area of Tharros represents one of the most precious testimonies of ancient Sardinian history. Among the necropolises and Nuragic, Phoenician and Punic remains, the tower of San Giovanni stands out. This coastal tower, built between the 16th and 17th centuries, was built to defend the coast from the incursions of pirates and Barbary corsairs.

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      January 3, 2023

      Tharros (also Tharras, Tarrae or Tarras) is an ancient city on the west coast of Sardinia, of which only remains remain. It is located 20 km west of Oristano in the province of the same name, on the southern tip of the Sinis Peninsula, which is sometimes only 100 m wide. The name Tharros first appeared on a Roman milestone.



      Founded by Nuragic people, the place was expanded into a city by the Phoenicians and taken over by the Punians and Romans. Between 827 and 1070 AD it was the capital of the judicate of Arborea. Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217) reported as early as 1183 that he had seen a ruined city when his ship sought shelter from a storm on the Sardinian promontory.



      The oldest finds in Tharros indicate a settlement in the 13th and 12th centuries BC. Close. From the 8th century BC Tharros must have been a Phoenician trading post in the 1st century BC. This is indicated by the ruins of an acropolis and two tepathim. From the Punic period, a 120 m long pier shows that Tharros was inhabited in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. BC was an important port and trading city.



      The Romans defeated in 215 B.C. BC the Punians adapted the city to their needs. Among other things, wide streets were laid out and covered with black basalt slabs; There were also water pipes and a sewer under the street, baths and a hexagonal baptistery.



      Near Tharros are the early medieval Byzantine church of San Giovanni di Sinis and the Ipogeo di San Salvatore, which is accessible in summer.



      Perhaps the oldest objects, but not found during regular excavations, are bronze figures from the Nuragic culture. Cypriot-Mycenaean pottery from the 13th and 12th centuries BC was found. BC, which suggests maritime trade. No corresponding quantities of imported ceramics have been found in any other Phoenician-Punic settlement in Sardinia. Tharros apparently had close relations with the Etruscans as early as the 8th and 7th centuries, as evidenced by Buccherovases. Giovanni Spano estimated the haul from over 100 looted graves to be around 4,000 scarabs made of agate, Egyptian glass river, Monte Arci jasper, carnelian, lapis lazuli and glazed clay, half of them set in imported gold.



      Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharros

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        September 5, 2018

        Beautiful excavation site but you can save the entrance because you can see everything on the fence and take good pictures

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