{"id":9624,"date":"2025-04-08T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1074717-5197419.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=9624"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:48:48","slug":"itinerario-ponente","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitsantantioco.info\/en\/itinerari\/itinerario-ponente\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponente Route"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ponente Route<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Listen to the sound of the sunset and the west wind. The legacy of our past tells a story of rites and beliefs linked to the passage into the afterlife: majestic structures or underground tunnels tell of social and individual memories immortalised for eternity. A sunset of the soul that prepares us for a new rebirth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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An archaeological jewel located on the eastern slopes of the hill now occupied by the Savoy fort of Su Pisu, the Punic Necropolis spreads out below the historic centre of Sant'Antioco, in a complex underground composition that defines the city's thousand-year history.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The burial rites of the dead in ancient civilisations have great fascination in the eyes of archaeology enthusiasts but also the merely curious. For this reason, in 2021, the reopening of the Punic Necropolis after 23 years of being closed to the public aroused considerable interest and strong participation on the part of visitors to the Sant'Antioco Historical Archaeological Park. The Necropolis is the place where the ancient Punic inhabitants of Sulky buried their dead in an area that, at the time, was located outside the inhabited centre and whose tombs were excavated on a rocky hill, as was typical in the Punic period also in centres such as Carthage, Cagliari or Tharros. What we know today, and can partly visit, are the spaces dedicated to death that the inhabitants of Sulky\/Sulci built between the end of the 6th century and around the 3rd century B.C., but the area also bears evidence of the funerary use of the sector in Roman times and, of the hypogea themselves, in Late Antiquity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Listen to the podcast<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Each tool and object has its traditional name in the Sardinian language: for example, 'sa scifedda', a large earthenware bowl used to knead bread or prepare 'sa fregula', the traditional Sardinian pasta that you can enjoy in our restaurants, or 'sa prencia', the grape press with its unmistakable sound.<\/p>

A large area is dedicated to Carignano del Sulcis, the traditional wine of this area, where all the utensils that were used to grow vines and make wine can be found.<\/p>

The Necropolis originally extended over about 10 hectares and, considering that, on average, each tomb occupied forty square metres, the number of hypogea must have been about one thousand five hundred.<\/p>

Unique in its kind, the Punic Necropolis of Sulky is an immense underground cemetery that hosts the burials of family groups, laid to rest inside the tombs in accordance with precise ritual codes and evocative ceremonial customs. A visit to the Punic Necropolis is a not-to-be-missed experience, unique and enthralling to learn about the city's thousand-year history.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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