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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca. Tofet steles represented the parents’ thanks of the little dead to the gods for having received the gift of a new birth and the continuation of their descendance. The term Tofet is commonly used to identify a particular type of sanctuary present in the Phoenician and Punic cities of the central Mediterranean. The main part of the museum's collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco Island. Coecuaddus beach.
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  • Sant'Antioco Island. Coecuaddus and Canai Tower.
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  • Sant'Antioco island. The Mangiabarche lighthouse ("Eating boats" after many wrecks on these cliffs) near Calasetta village.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island. The Mangiabarche lighthouse ("Eating boats" after many wrecks on these cliffs) near Calasetta village.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, Canai Plain the agricoltural area of the island.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, two Phoenician lions of Hittite or Syriac influence that once protected the gate of the Punic city. The archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island.  the ‘tofet’, a particular type of city sanctuary of Phoenician cultural matrix. The town still preserves the name of ‘Sa guard ‘e is pingiadas’ -the guard of the pots-, popular reminiscence of the presence of many ceramic containers that often emerged in the area.<br />
The term Tofet is commonly used to identify a particular type of sanctuary present in the Phoenician and Punic cities of the central Mediterranean. The tofet is a sacred area in the open air. On the natural rock or on the ground were placed urns containing the ashes of children ever born or prematurely dead, who were cremated and often accompanied by a funerary offer, mainly lambs and poultry also incinerated. The tofet was a sacred and funerary area dedicated to those who did not yet have a social defined identity, therefore they were entrusted to the divinities as in need of special protections and rituals.
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  • Sant'Antioco island. The reconstruction of a Punic burial site in the hypogaeum village including a series of Punic tombs built between the late sixth and the end of the third century B. C. later adapted as houses from the poorer classes of the country; these underground places are known by the name of Is Gruttas, the caves.
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  • Sant'Antioco island. The cliffs of the Western coast.
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  • Calasetta, the harbour with the old Savoy tower, now a museum. Calasetta is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • Calasetta, is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • San Pietro island, La Caletta beach.
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  • Calasetta, the harbour with the old Savoy tower, now a museum. Calasetta is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • Calasetta, the city hall. Calasetta is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • Calasetta, is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • Calasetta, the harbour with the old Savoy tower, now a museum. Calasetta is a small town on the island founded in 1770. In the middle of the 16th century some Ligurian families from Pegli near Genoa moved to a deserted island off the coast of the Tunisian city of Tabarka in order to work the waters as coral fishermen. Increasing  incursions by Barbery pirates, and expansionist competition by France began a long period of trials for the Tabarchini.<br />
In 1738 a group of Tabarchini decided to leave the island and were received by King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia, who gave them the Island of San Pietro to settle. When the Bey of Tunis learned that the Lomellini family intended to sell the island to his enemies the French, he invaded the island   the population. Part of the liberated Tabarchini originated the village of Calasetta
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  • San Pietro island, La Caletta beach.
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  • San Pietro island, the Northern coast.
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  • Calasetta, the Fondazione Macc, a contemporary art museum in the old village's slaughterhouse.
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  • Sant'Antioco village. The Palaeo-Christian Basilica of Sant'Antioco. On the back the Savoy fortress build against Barbaresque pirates.
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  • Sant'Antioco village. The Palaeo-Christian Basilica of Sant'Antioco.
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  • Sant'Antioco village. The Palaeo-Christian Basilica of Sant'Antioco. On the back the Savoy fortress build against Barbaresque pirates.
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  • San Pietro island. The monument of the King of Piedmont-Sardinia Charles Emmanuel III that granted the permission to colonize the then-uninhabited island (1739) to people of Ligurian language and ethnicity, coming from the Republic of Genoa's colony at Tabarka after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia. Today most of the population has retained a variant of Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino, which is also spoken in the northern part of the next Sant'Antioco island, in Calasetta, of same origin.
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  • San Pietro island. The monument of the King of Piedmont-Sardinia Charles Emmanuel III that granted the permission to colonize the then-uninhabited island (1739) to people of Ligurian language and ethnicity, coming from the Republic of Genoa's colony at Tabarka after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia. Today most of the population has retained a variant of Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino, which is also spoken in the northern part of the next Sant'Antioco island, in Calasetta, of same origin.
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