Portoscuso (SU)

Portoscuso is a beautiful town of about 5000 inhabitants on the Sulcis coast just in front of the island of San Pietro.

Originated in the century. XVII, when near the sixteenth-century Spanish tower was built a tonnara (still in a fairly good state of conservation) on the coast.

A hasty and disorderly building expansion, determined by the demographic explosion that occurred after 1971, driven by the industrial development of

Portovesme, has distorted, by compressing it, the original nucleus of the village.

The presence of man in the territory of Portoscuso probably dates back to the Neolithic period with the rock shelters in Crobettana. The burial caves, discovered in the same locality, and the megalithic circles in Piccinu Mortu and Su Medadeddu belong to the Copper Age.

Among the places of interest in addition to the beautiful coast, we can list the church of Sant'Antonio da Padova considered the oldest church in the country which is located inside the ancient tonnara and the Spanish Tower erected by the Spaniards in the second half of the 16th century. century as a defense from Barbary pirates.