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Castle Hotel Costa dei Fiori to the archaeological site of Nora

Today the Hotel Costa dei Fiori, we're going to find Nora: the ancient city of Trustees nuragica, the oldest town in Sardinia, located on Cape Cape Pula, after only 15 minutes we are thrown into an archaeological site from the old fascination.

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The name comes from Norac here have been found traces of nuragica, demonstrating a use of the site during the Bronze Age (especially a well nuragico at the "Spa at Sea" and the import of manufactured goods dating from the Mycenaean III b full Nuraghic). In the surrounding area totaled some nuraghi (Nuraghe Sa Guardia Mongiasa "on the only modest relief in the hinterland; Nuraghe Antigori Sarroch, more distant, in which were found Mycenaean ceramics).

Traces of repopulation Sardo-Phoenician refer to the eighth century BC (Nora stele with an inscription similar to the Phoenician alphabet, the oldest attestation of the name of Sardinia), while the oldest remains discovered relate to a cemetery with graves dating from the late seventh and early sixth century BC
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just have a few remnants of the original city (tophet foundations of a sacred structure devoted to the goddess Tanit, the remains of fortifications, installations craft in the area closest to the sea). The materials found in the tombs, however, attest to the flourishing of the city especially in the fifth and fourth centuries BC and early contacts with Rome.

At the time of the Roman conquest of Sardinia (238 BC) was probably the most important cities of the island, initially chosen as the capital of the Roman province of Sardinia and Corsica. In Roman times, the town hall. The remains of the development currently witnessed in the city especially in the second and third centuries AD, the Roman town are the remains of several buildings (Forum, theater, spa facilities, housing), while the archaeological material evidence of the continuation and prosperity of trade with the regions facing the Mediterranean Sea.

The abandonment of the city had to start in the fifth century, with the occupation by the Vandals and the greater difficulty of maritime traffic: the inhabitants had to pick up gradually in the most secure of the Interior. In the seventh century Ravenna Cosmografia anonymous quotes as Nora Praesidium (fortress and not the city). The attendance at the next site is linked to the tradition of the martyrdom of Sant'Efisio happened here, which was dedicated to a small church built in 1089.
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