Figure 1.--This photo was taken in the country in south-west Sardinia during the 1950s. The boy is drawing water from a well by a water-wheel driven by a donkey. |
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Sardinia is another important Mediterranean island making up Italy. We have some limited information on the island. Sardinia has an extendive history. Sardinia has been settled since the Paeolithic Age. Archaeologists have no idea how the first humans reached sardinia or from where. Unlikele Sicily, Sadinia was located at some distance from the coast. It was inhabited throughout the Neolithic Age. There are architectural treasues on the island. They include the ‘Nuraghe’, the Domus de Janas, holy wells, temples and the mystic giant tombs, which are huge stones set into the ground called ‘betili’ or ‘menhir’ which stem from the megalithic architecture. There are 7,000 Nuraghi and hundreds of archaeological monuments that are located all over the island. It is not as strategically placed as Sicily which fominated the narrows between the eastern and Western Mediterranean. Thus Sardinia has been largely a backwater of history. The Phoenicians first founded colonies on the island. The major enticement were the miberal resources. The Carthaginians seized the island (about 510 BC). The principal Punic cities were Tharros, Nora and Sulci. Rome obtained control of Sardinia during the Punic Wars (238 BC). The Sardinian-Punic people resisted Roman rule, but over seven centuries of Roman rule the population was largely Romanized. With the fall of Rome the island was seized by the Vandals and then the Byzantines. The medieval history of Sardinia was complicated with local dynasties and then Aragon playing important roles. The major historical importance of Sardinia is the role it played in the unification of Italy. An Italian reader tells us about the festival of Saint Salvatore at Cabras, a village on the eastern coast of Sardinia. Another interesting festival is the festival of St. Efisio. This is Sardinia's most important event. It is both religious and secular festival.
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