Cagliari
Cosmopolitan Working City
General Information
Other Name: -, District: NA, State: Sardinia, Italy
Area: 85.45 km²
Languages Spoken: Italian
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Best Time to Visit: June to September and -
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Cagliari is a cosmopolitan working city surrounding an evocative medieval centre where taverns and restaurants casually spill out onto the many cobbled piazzas.The old part of the city (called Castello, the castle) lies on top of a hill, with a wonderful view of the Gulf of Cagliari.Most of its city walls are intact, and feature the two 13th century white lime-stone towers, St. Pancras Tower and the Elephant Tower.Cagliari is a tourist city, and especially in summer a lot of clubs and pubs are goals for youth and tourists, pubs and night-clubs are concentrated in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, a central street in Stampace district, near to the port and Castello district, as for clubs they are mostly on the Poetto beach, or in Viale Marconi.Location
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Mediterranean Climate, with hot and dry summers and very mild winter.
It consists with Punic, Greek and Roman material as well as the largest collection of Sardinian antiquities. Of particular interest in Room I are the bronze statues found in the nuraghi (dolmens). On the upper floor are pictures of the 14th to 18th centuries.
Milan''s Roman amphitheatre, built between the first and second centuries B.C., was one of the old town''s most imposing buildings.
During the late 2nd millennium B.C. in the Bronze Age, a special type of defensive structure known as nuraghi (for which no parallel exists anywhere else in the world) developed on the island of Sardinia. The complex consists of circular defensive towers in the form of truncated cones built of dressed stone, with corbel-vaulted internal chambers. The complex at Barumini, which was extended and reinforced in the first half of the 1st millennium under Carthaginian pressure, is the finest and most complete example of this remarkable form of prehistoric architecture.
From the Piazza della Costituzione, the beautiful Viale Regina Elena, affording fine views, runs north below the sheer east side of the old bastion to the Giardino Pubblico.