{"id":104881,"date":"2024-11-22T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/itinerari\/nature-trails-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:21:49","slug":"nature-trails-2","status":"publish","type":"itinerario","link":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/itinerari\/nature-trails-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Devil&#8217;s Saddle<\/strong>, like the entire St. Elias promontory, consists of sedimentary rocks of Miocene age, thus geologically quite young. Within this type of karst-forming rocks, several small caves have formed, which have been found to have been inhabited by humans since the 6th millennium BCE. On the summit plateau, near the highest point of the promontory (m 135 asl), there was in the Punic period a place of worship dedicated to Astarte. In the 11th century, the whole area was entrusted to the Vittorini monks, who built a proper monastery and took care of salt pans, fishponds and cultivable areas in the surrounding areas. The tower, now half-ruined, present at the highest and most scenic point of the promontory is to be considered, however, as being part of the defense and sighting system created by the Spanish in the 16th century. Later, the same tower was also called the tower of the pouhet, that is, of the well, since it was located near the Roman cistern. The whole area would later be called &#8220;pouhet,&#8221; hence the name &#8220;Poetto&#8221; given to the beach by the people of Cagliari.        <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>St. Ignatius Hill<\/strong> is formed by limestone rocks of marine origin rich in fossils, mainly bivalve mollusks dating back to the Miocene. On one of these rocks rests the Lazzaretto Tower (34 m above sea level), also called the Parsley Tower, built before 1600. The tower controlled the entrance to the ancient ports of Cagliari and guarded the Lazzaretto. From the Prezzemolo Tower the path leads to the World War II anti-aircraft battery, consisting of six emplacements that housed cannons and machine guns. Leaving the anti-aircraft battery, the hike continues to the 18th-century St. Ignatius Fort. Along the way, between the Lazzaretto Tower and the Fort of St. Ignatius, it is possible to admire typical plants of the Mediterranean flora, such as mastic tree (used in the past for extracting oil from its berries), juniper, cistus, euphorbia (used in the past for poaching), as well as medicinal herbs such as thyme, helichrysum, and sea wormwood.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"COMUNE":[],"note":[],"images":[],"adesioni":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104881","itinerario","type-itinerario","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/itinerari\/104881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/itinerari"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/itinerario"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/itinerari\/104881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104882,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/itinerari\/104881\/revisions\/104882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}