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Sulcis Sardinia
Sulcis territory is located in the southwestern part of Sardinia; its name comes from the old city of Sulci in the S.Antioco island. It is made up of a great plain formed by alluvial soils and covered by seasonal rivers. It goes from the wide Rio Palmas valet to the Gonnessa bowl, from the striking S.Antioco and S.Pietro islands up to the wood inside Pantaleo Santadi and Monte Nieddu di Nuxis (Sulcis Natural Park). The plain presents sporadic hills and volcanic plateaus as the Monte Sinai, the Monte Narcao and the Monte Essu; there are also several tuff plateaus together with effusive rocks as trachytes and ignimbrites of the Miocene serie; these rocks finish to the steep coasts of Altano di Portoscuso and Nido dei Passeri di S.Antioco capes. Sulcis archipelago is formed by two main islands: S.Pietro and S.Antioco. The association of this area by several ethnic groups was due mainly to seams of lead, silver and zinc in the Iglesiente and to coal in the Sulcis. There are evidences of pre-nuragic (rocky shelter of Su Carropu-Sirri-Carbonia, domu de janas of Montessu-Villaperuccio, Monte Crobu-Carbonia) and nuragic (the village of Serucci-Gonnesa, nuraghi Sirai-Carbonia and S. Anna Arresi, finds of the Benatzu-Santadi cave) archaeological ruins.
