Edited by UniCa’s Department of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Heritage, which, in collaboration with Cagliari Municipality and Cagliari Navy Logistic Support 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 domu 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 recounting the 8,000 years of history that have affected Cape St. Elias, will be divided into three appointments:
Sunday, Oct. 27 – h 10 a.m.: Archaeologist Alfonso Stiglitz will recount the transformation of Cagliari’s landscape from the earliest stages of human settlement to the present day.
Sunday, Oct. 27 – h 12 noon: Archaeologist Maria Adele Ibba will explain the results so far of the archaeological excavations carried out on the Devil’s Saddle.
Sunday, Oct. 27 – h 3 p.m.: Archaeologist Fabio Pinna will trace the events that have affected Cape St. Elias since the Middle Ages.
