Edited by UniCa’s Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage, which, in collaboration with the Municipality of Cagliari and the support of the Cagliari Navy Command, has been conducting archaeological investigations on Capo Sant’Elia since 2002 under a Research and Excavation Concession.
The limestone hill of Sant’Elias, popularly called “the Devil’s Saddle,” is a long promontory that runs into the sea and is the entrance to Cagliari. Populated since prehistoric times, some eight thousand years ago, it preserves evidence of Cagliari’s life stages, from prehistoric settlements to the domus de janas, the cisterns of the temple of Astarte, the church of Sant’Elia al Monte passing through the towers, medieval Lanterna or Sant’Elia, Spanish Poetto, to the modern military forts of World War II.
The itinerary, which will take the form of a narrative of the 8,000 years of history surrounding Cape St. Elias, will be divided into four appointments curated by archaeologists engaged in archaeological investigations:
