Travel guide

The Basilica of San
Saturnino in Cagliari
substantial changes during the passage of Sardinia from Carthago to
Rome after 238 B.C.E. Thus, the devotional continuity is documented at
the sanctuary of Antas (Fluminimaggiore), originally dedicated to the
supreme paleosardinian divinity, then to the Semite god Sid-Addir, and
later to the Sardus Pater mentioned in the classical sources. During the first
centuries of Roman influence, the leading town is Nora, amongst whose
ruins thermal baths, mosaics of villas and the theatre, are still preserved.
Starting from the I century B.C.E., Carales, renowned for its amphitheatre,
and Turris Libisonis (Porto Torres), an Augustan colony of which the
remains of an aqueduct and of the thermal buildings of the so-called
Palazzo di Re Barbaro are still preserved, deserve mentioning. The artefacts
of Roman Sardinia, both imported (notable the marble series of imperial
portraits of the Julius-Claudius dynasty recovered in Sant’Antioco) and of
local production, are a sign of the adaptation to extra-island currents,
being quite similar to analogous finds from the Italic mainland and from
Africa, where the sealed ceramic, exported until the VI–VII century A.C.E.,
originates. The Christianisation of the Roman Island, started in the first
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