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Static rendering with a reconstructive hypothesis of the Baths of Forum Traiani by Fordongianus. From Digital Resources Sardegna SVA

Roman Sardinia is strongly marked by an intense process of redefining its landscape. In fact, one of the distinctive features of Rome's domination policies has always been to imprint on controlled territories a landscape that would provide, from a visual point of view, an unambiguous feeling of “Romanity” wherever you were in the empire.

Fluminimaggiore, Temple of Antas, facade. Photo by Pietro Paolo Pinna, 2009, from Digital Resources Sardegna IDV

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Great testimonies of Romanity in Sardinia

Crucial for the control of Roman Sardinia was then the intense road network, created with the specific intention of making every area of the new province, created in 227 BC, accessible and controllable. For this purpose,...

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Nora, Roman ruins of the city of Nora. Photo by Barbara Pisano, 2009, from Sardegna DL

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The development of cities

The history of the Roman urbanization of Sardinia begins long before the moment when, in 238 BC, the island came under direct Roman rule. In fact, it is probable that already in the 6th century BC, the first treaty betwe...

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Fordongianus, the Roman baths. Photo by Bruno Manunza, 2009, from Sardegna DL

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Urban structures

From the moment that, in 227 BC, Sardinia became a Roman province, the process of Romanization of the island became increasingly intense, in particular in the cities, which underwent a progressive process of urban renewa...

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Ruins of the city of Tharros. Photo by Fabio Marras, 2009, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Cabras, Roman Monuments of Tharros

The ancient settlement of Tharros is located at the S end of the Sinis Peninsula. It unfolds in the Gulf of Oristano on a sort of natural amphitheater bordered N by the hill of Su Muru Mannu, W by that of the tower of Sa...

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Colle di Tuvixeddu, columbarium. M. A. Mongiu Archive, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Cagliari, Roman city of Karales

The city is located in the innermost part of the Golfo degli Angeli, at the southern end of Sardinia, on the edge of the Campidano plain. It lies between the sea, the Molentargius and Santa Gilla ponds and a group of ste...

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Guspini, Roman city of Neapolis. Photos from Sardegna Digital Library

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Guspini, Roman city of Neapolis

The site is located in the south-eastern part of the Gulf of Oristano and is located on a complex of alluvial bumps near the lagoon system formed by the Marceddà, San Giovanni and Santa Maria ponds.

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Aerial view of the Roman aqueduct of Olbia. Photos from Sardinia Aerial Photos - Orthophotos and Cartographic Data © Agea, All rights reserved

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Olbia, Roman city

The city is at the base of a deep estuary on the northeastern coast of Sardinia and extends over a stretch of plain on the shore of the homonymous gulf. The city has one of the most important commercial and tourist ports...

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Ruins of a Roman farm. Photo of Comune di Olbia, 2008, from Sardegna DL

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Olbia, Roman Monuments

The city is at the base of a deep estuary on the northeastern coast of Sardinia and extends over a stretch of plain on the shore of the homonymous gulf. The city has one of the most important commercial and tourist ports...

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Turris Libisonis. Photo by Giovanna Damiani (MiC - Polo Museale della Sardegna), Digital Resources LC_POR

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Porto Torres, Roman City of Turris Libisonis

The city of Roman colonial foundation was located on the site of the current Porto Torres, at the mouth of the Rio Mannu, in the center of the Gulf of Asinara, in northern Sardinia.

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Turris Libisonis, Roman bridge. Photo by Marco Ceraglia, 2010, from Digital Resources Sardegna IDV

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Porto Torres, Turris Libisonis Monuments

The center of today's Porto Torres lies largely on the Roman city. The ancient testimonies are visible in N/O, between the train station and the course of the Rio Mannu.

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Pula, Roman city of Nora. Photo by RAS Press Office, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Pula, Roman city of Nora

With the Roman conquest of Sardinia, which took place in 238 BC, the process of romanization of the island was triggered. This process, which took place not automatically but marked by a complex articulation in phases, w...

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Nora, Roman mosaic. Photo by Barbara Pisano, 2009, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Pula, Roman monuments of Nora

Nora is located on a promontory, the Cape of Pula, separated from the mainland by an isthmus that extends into two points: a O Sa Punta 'e Su Coloru (the tip of the snake), a E la Punta del Coltellazzo, in front of the h...

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Sant'Antioco, Roman city of Sulci. Photos from Sardinia Aerial Photos - Orthophotos and Cartographic Data © Agea, All rights reserved

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Sant'Antioco, Roman city of Sulci

The Roman city of Sulci was located, like the pre-existing Punic city, in the place of today's Sant'Antioco, in the N/E part of the homonymous Sulcitan island, southwest of Sardinia.

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Ostia, Piazzale Corporazioni Turritani

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In Roman times, Sardinia was subjected to intense agricultural and mining exploitation. Preziosa, therefore, had to prove the ability to ensure maritime traffic for the transport of the resources recovered to the island...

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Cargeghe, Roman road of Sos Bajolos. Photo of Comune di Cargeghe, 2007, from Sardegna DL

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The road network

Roman control of Sardinia was based primarily on the impressive and efficient road network. The system was, in all probability, set up on road routes already drawn in the previous Phoenician-Punic era, to which bridges a...

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Servizi linguistici del Comune di Oschiri

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Servizi linguistici del Comune di Oschiri

Torralba, Museo della Valle dei Nuraghi del Logudoro-Meilogu

Testimonianze grandiose della romanità in Sardegna

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Pula, Città fenicio-punica di Nora

Guspini, Città romana di Neapolis

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