Sard 09. Santa Margherita di Pula to Cagliari
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Sard 09. Santa Margherita di Pula to Cagliari

A cycling route starting in Pula, Sardinia, Italy.

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Nora opens 0900         53km to Assemini Train Station     Trains to Cagliari 2/6  0901,1101,1155,1302,1501,1535,1629,1701,1802

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Duration
66.5 km
Distance
358 m
Ascent
353 m
Descent
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Avg. speed
116 m
Avg. speed
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created this 2 years ago

Route highlights

Points of interest along the route

  1. Point of interest after 6.4 km

    Torre del Coltellazzo o di Sant'Efisio been closed in recent years

  2. Point of interest after 6.4 km

    Sanctuary of Aesculapius

  3. Point of interest after 6.4 km

    Ticket Office Biglietteria per l'area archeologica di Nora Opens 0900 - tour recomended

  4. Point of interest after 6.4 km

    Area archeologica di Nora https://nora.beniculturali.unipd.it/

  5. Point of interest after 6.4 km

    Teatro Romano di Nora

  6. Point of interest after 9.1 km

    Batteria Boggio anti aircraft/ship battery and bunkers

  7. Point of interest after 19.1 km

    Nuraghe Sa Domu 'e s'Orcu The visitors' centre is closed and the path is barred in several locations and in terrible shape, however if you don't mind climbing some rocks and fences you will be rewarded with a beautiful view of Cagliari in the distance, and a great piece of history right at your feet: a well-preserved, very large Nuraghi with three chambers. Mind your step!

  8. Drinking water after 21.4 km

    Etnochic Coffee shop

  9. Point of interest after 25.9 km

    Sarroch, Villa d'Orri The villa is set in a garden, at the center of a vast agricultural estate that retains the signs of eighteenth-century planning. When in 1774 Don Giacomo Manca Amat bought the land in the area called "Vigna di Orri" from the Palmas spouses, there still did not exist a building that could be defined as a manor house, but around twenty rustic houses with arcades and courtyards, the church dedicated to the Most Holy Virgin of the Carmelo or Santa Maria di Orri, a shop, the so-called "Ostaria Vecchia", perhaps built on the site of the ancient post station on the Roman road from Nora to Cagliari, two gardens, an enclosed vegetable garden, two mills, a spring, the vineyard and about two thousand fruit trees. In 1799 Don Giacomo, almost seventy years old, moved back to Sassari and being unable to carry on his business in the capital, gave the prey of Orri to his son Stefano. And it is to that period that the construction of the villa or the renovation of one of the rustic buildings can therefore be traced back. The vicissitudes of Villa d'Orri are closely linked to the figure of Stefano, Marquis of Villahermosa and Santa Croce who, in addition to building the villa and making it an important cultural and family reference point, hosted in the early nineteenth century, right on the estate of Orri, King Carlo Felice and the court in exile. Subsequently, on the death of Stefano Manca di Villahermosa, the family's events saw the Orri estate now in good condition, now abandoned to itself. The descendants of the Manca family preferred the city residence to the country one, paying particular attention to the agricultural production of the surrounding lands; at the end of the 19th century the villa was rented for many years mainly to foreigners who were enchanted by the beauty of the place. The villa experienced a new period of development with Don Vincenzo Manca Aymerich. In the early twentieth century, after his marriage to Sofia Franchetti, belonging to a noble and wealthy Tuscan family, Don Vincenzo restored the villa to make it his residence of choice during his stays on the island. Once the surrounding lands had been cured of malaria, the park and access to the sea had been cleaned up, Orri once again became a holiday resort, particularly popular in the summer. After the Second World War, the villa underwent the partial reconstruction of the roofs by the Civil Engineers and a completely destroyed wing was rebuilt. The entire architectural complex is set on an OE axis: a visual axis that reaches the sea from the road layout; axis of symmetry of the planimetric layout and of the two main facades of the villa; axis along which the whole organism is articulated, made up of the village mainly in raw earth, the deposits, the elegant residence, the warehouses. The central body of the villa (stately residence) is exactly on the border between two green systems: cultivated fields and park (in the second half of the 19th century it was home to the most well-stocked nursery in Sardinia), a dichotomy that can be found in the two front gardens, one upstream (O) formal Italian style, the other at sea (E) more casual. The ground floor is used as a warehouse and among the rooms that make it up, three rectangular ones with a pavilion roof set on a pointed arch have been found. Three rooms open onto a loggia which extends along elevation E for about 35 m; it is made up of eleven round arches and covered by ribbed vaults. The richness shown by the interior furnishings does not transpire at all from the two austere main elevations, both symmetrical and composed with an almost engineering rigor. Upstream, a double external staircase, highlighted by four marble busts, gives access to the noble floor directly from the garden. On the opposite side, a somewhat anomalous staircase connects the terrace on the piano nobile to the park. Architecturally, this staircase is an object in itself, with a vague neoclassical taste, valuable as a whole, but in dissonance with the rigor found everywhere. Both the park and the architectural complex are now in an advanced state of decay. Currently the villa, owned by the descendants of Don Vincenzo, houses the memories and archives of the Manca di Villahermosa family.

  10. Drinking water after 34.6 km

    Bar caffè Gaudi

  11. Drinking water after 34.9 km

    Pasticceria Mille Voglie Cake shop

  12. Point of interest after 66 km

    Chiesa di San Michele

  13. Point of interest after 66 km

    Orto Botanico

  14. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    Citadel Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari

  15. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    Quartiere Castello

  16. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    Tower of San Pancrazio

  17. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    Catedrale di Santa Cecilia

  18. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    San Benedetto Market

  19. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    Torre dell'Elefante

  20. Point of interest after 66.3 km

    The Royal Palace

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