The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities is organizing, again this year, the National Landscape Day. The objective of this initiative of great success is to promote the landscape culture, and to inspire citizens on its related themes. Numerous events will be presented on Thursday 14 March throughout the national territory, to know and learn more about the less popular aspects of the interesting natural and cultural landscapes .
The scheduled events in our museums and archaeological areas are as follows:
The National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari
Conference at 17.00.
Alfonso Stiglitz, specialized in Phoenician-Punic archaeology, and expert of the archaeology of the landscape, is presenting a lecture about the Gulf of Cagliari. The story of Cagliari can be told through its changing landscapes with its physical mobility in the sea, the lagoons, the salt mines, the beaches, the rivers, the hills, and the promontories, but also for its human mobility. Cagliari’s city center moved many times between the lagoon and the sea. It is a 8.000 years long history, that tells of the great city welcoming of people, reason why it was called Madre de Forasteros. The lecture will analyze this theme from different point of views like the landscape changes of space, of the mind, and of the history.
Pinacoteca nazionale of Sassari
Guided tours, open from 9.00 to 18.00.
Paintings from the late 1600s that depict the sea landscape will be presented for this event. Particular attention to two still-life paintings with fish from the collection of Giovanni Antonio Sanna. The paintings show the composite scheme of the Caravaggio painting technique, and place the different kinds of fish in the foreground, a symbol of taste and of the daily life that the less wealthy class of Naples in the 1600s referred to for sustenance.
Archaeological area of Turris Libisonis
Theme guided tour on Sunday 17 March, at 11.00.
A walk around the archaeological area of Turris Libisonis is planned for this event. This area is a advantageous point over the Gulf of Asinara. The archaeologist Elisabetta Alba will lead visitors to the discovery of the Nurra and the Gulf of Asinara before the arrival of the Romans, and of the foundation for the Colony of Turris Libisonis.
Multipurpose Center, Cabras
Conference on 14 March at 18.30, and guided tours for the Archaeological area of Tharros on 17 March at 9.30.
Carla Del Vais from the University of Cagliari, and Anna Depalmas from the Univerisity of Sassari are presenting a conference about the ancient landscape, giving particular attention to the Sinis territory in the Proto-historic and Historical times. It will also be possible to participate to a guided tour, from San Giovanni of Sinis to Capo San Marco, during which the contexts expressed during the conference will be illustrated on the field.
Pre-Nuraghic Altar of Monte d’Accoddi, Sassari
Guided visit from 10.00 to 12.00.
The surrounding landscape will be illustrated from the Pre-Nuraghic altar of Monte d’Accoddi (III millennium BC), the archaeological monument located in the historical region of the Flumenargia. A few significant anthropogenic interventions that characterized this area will be analyzed with a study of the first settlements during the Neolithic age, the cemeteries, the viability during the Roman age, the historical farms, the quarries, and the artifacts of the industrial zone of Porto Torres.