Pula (CA)

Pula is a small town in the metropolitan city of Cagliari founded in the medieval period and developed in the 18th century.

It is famous for the archaeological site of Nora, dating back to the Phoenician and Roman periods.

Thanks to its beaches, in the twentieth century it became an important tourist destination.

It is home to the Giovanni Patroni Archaeological Museum with finds from the excavations of Nora, and the Norace Museum with mineralogical collections.

Along whose main street is the parish church and further on, the beautifully shaped Villa S. Maria

neoclassical. Arriving to the south of the town, the tree-lined avenue branches off and ends after 3 km on the peninsula of Capo di Pula where the ruins of the city of Nora are located.

Shortly before the entrance to the excavations stands the church of S. Efisio, the point of arrival of the annual procession from Cagliari in honor of the saint, built in the place where an early Christian oratory once stood, it was consecrated in 1102 and retains the powerful primitive Romanesque forms that reveal clear influences of Franco-Catalan architecture, imported to Sardinia by the Vittorini monks of Marseille.

Behind the church, excavations carried out in the last century brought to light the tophet of Nora, initially interpreted as a cremation necropolis. The urns and related stelae are in the Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.