San Giovanni Suergiu
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San Giovanni Suergiu is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias
in the Italian
region Sardinia
, located about 50 km west of Cagliari
and about 4 km south of Carbonia.
San Giovanni Suergiu borders the following municipalities: Carbonia, Giba
, Portoscuso
, Sant'Antioco
, Tratalias
.
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias
Province of Carbonia-Iglesias
Carbonia-Iglesias is a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy which includes the historical region of Sulcis-Iglesiente, the southwestern part of Sardinia.-Overview:...
in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
region Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
, located about 50 km west of Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
and about 4 km south of Carbonia.
San Giovanni Suergiu borders the following municipalities: Carbonia, Giba
Giba
Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba , is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.-Biography:...
, Portoscuso
Portoscuso
Portoscuso is a comune in the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 75 km west of Cagliari and about 14 km northwest of Carbonia. The language used here is Italian....
, Sant'Antioco
Sant'Antioco
Sant'Antioco is the name of both an island and a municipality in southwestern Sardinia, in the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias, in Sulcis zone. With a population of 11,730, the municipality of Sant'Antioco it is the island's largest community...
, Tratalias
Tratalias
Tratalias is a comune in the Province of Carbonia-Iglesias in the Island of Sardinia, located about 50 km southwest of Cagliari and about 8 km southeast of Carbonia....
.
Main sights
- Church of St. Mary of Palmas, in Pisan-Romanesque style (12th century)
- Church of St. John the Baptist (14th century)
- Remains of the Castle of Palmas (11th century)
- Neolithic necropolis of Locci Santu, belonging to the Ozieri cultureOzieri cultureThe Ozieri culture was a prehistoric pre-Nuragic culture that lived in Sardinia from c. 3200 to 2800 BC. It takes its name from the locality where the main findings connected with it have been found, the grotto of San Michele near Ozieri, in northern Sardinia...
and including 13 domus de janasDomus de JanasDomus de Janas are a type of pre-historic chamber tombs found in the Mediterranean area, but typically in Sardinia. They consist of several chambers quarried out by the Ozieri and Beaker cultures, resembling houses in their layout.Built between 3400 and 2700 BC, more than 1000 of the rock-cut... - Several nuragheNuragheThe nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture, the Nuragic civilization...
and the giants' graveGiants' gravethumb|300px|sa Ena 'e Thomes Giants' grave in [[Dorgali]].thumb|300px|Interior of the sa Ena 'e Thomes tomb.Giants' grave is the name given by local people and archaeologists to a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built during the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civilization...
of Craminalana - Natural preserve of Punt'e Trettu