Cagliari, the history speaks us

Cagliari (to see hotels in Cagliari) is a municpio of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia that counts on 163,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. It is found in the south zone of the island, in front of the gulf of the same name and including some adjacent neighborhoods gives on the whole a population of 500,000 inhabitants. In this city there is a large quantity of historic elements by seeing, how the cathedral of Cagliari. Is also a locality that modernity breathes.



The city was built on seven hills and the first human settlements date from the epoch of the Punic and of the Phoenicians. Has a large quantity of Roman ruins. Also, because the city was receptora of immigration of other zones of Italy there are remainders of the invasion pisana and even of the Spaniard. These invasions were produced during the first centuries of the past millennium. Cagliari prided itself by having one of the most extensive urban beaches of the Italian cities. Concretely the beach Il Poetto has to the surrounding of 13 kilometers and in the west of the city exists an important industrial pole.

The climate in the city is very smooth although when the wind of the northwest blows with force the time refreshes. Near this city they are found a series of towns that emphasize for their beauty, like they are Polish, Chia or Villasimus that unite their beauty to the fact that yet they have not been excessively hollados by the tourism. Also is near of mountains as Mount Arcosu, Serpeddi or Seti Fratelli that have a large quantity of forests and an admirable biodiversity.

In the Phoenician epoch a large quantity of populations they lived in the zone where today the city is found of Cagliari, their fundamental activity was the fishing, the agriculture and the manual activities. In the century VIII a. C. the Phoenicians arrived and they began to trade with the aborigines. The it found Cagliari in a central position in the routes of the commerce converted to the city in step of obliged step when the merchants wanted to enter Sardinia. In a first moment in the zone of Holy Igia the Phoenicians appeared and to ends of the century IV to.C. the Carthaginians. In this territory they have been found great fossils samples quantity of the step of these two towns. Also when the construction of new buildings has been initiated remainders of the old city have appeared.

In Cagliari they remain many remainders of the Roman domination, in that epoch the city I am called Karalis that the Romans dedicated it to military operations. Of this epoch of Roman stopover they remain a large quantity of remainders in the city: the amphitheater that is found in the neighborhood of the Botanical Garden, the village of Tigellio, the cave of the viper and in the neighborhoods of San Bartolomeo and San’ t Elia some samples of Roman constructions.

The kingdom of Cagliari were always allied of Genoa. In 1528 it concluded when the capital was invaded and destroyed by a coalition that counted among its members to Sardinia and to Steps. After the conquest Cagliari became floor pisano. In the year 1323 Jaime I of Aragon closed a series of alliances with the kings of Arboreal and after a year of fights I occupy the territories of Steps, between it Cagliari and Gallura, passing to be called Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica.