Porto Torres

Porto Torres
Country	Italy
region	Sardinia
province	Sassari  (SS)
Local name	Portu Turre / Poltu Torra / Poltu Turri
Coordinates	40 ° 50 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E
surface	102.62 km²
Residents	22,158 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	216 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	07046
prefix	079
ISTAT number	090058
Popular name	Turritani
Patron saint	San Gavino
Website	Porto Torres

Porto Torres (Sardinian Portu Turre , in the regional dialect Poltu Tòrra ) is a city in Sardinia in the province of Sassari . It has 22,158 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and an area of ​​102.62 km² .

Porto Torres is located on the Asinara Gulf, opposite the Asinara island , which is part of the municipality and is now a national park . Not far from the port city is the Monte d'Accoddi . The city is an important port for goods and passenger traffic with Genoa , Toulon and Marseille . There are also seasonal connections with Propriano in Corsica and with the Italian port of Civitavecchia and Barcelona in Spain .

history

The present-day autonomous municipality of Porto Torres was founded in 1842 through the merger of the settlement belt at the port with the then city of Torres (its name since the Middle Ages). The region was settled since the Neolithic . The historical rise began at the time of Romanization of Sardinia as the Augustan colony Turris Libyssonis , from which remains of the thermal baths and the burial ground have survived . Since the early Middle Ages Torres was the capital of one of the four Sardinian judicates , but since the 12th century it has lost its importance compared to today's provincial capital Sassari , which served as a retreat for the inhabitants of Torres threatened by Arab attacks from the sea.

Attractions

The former cathedral (today the basilica ) of Porto Torres, San Gavino , was built by Pisan builders in Romanesque style since 1065 , on the site of a previous Byzantine building and on the area of ​​the earlier Roman necropolis, and received its current size and size in the 12th century Shape with a nave closed off by apses in the east and west . It is the largest Romanesque church building in Sardinia and probably the starting point for the medieval cult of Saint Gabinus or Gavinus in Sardinia, a martyr from Roman times († 303?), Who was there with literary evidence in Latin literature since the early 12th century two other local saints, Protus and Januarius, are said to be buried, and whose life and martyrdom are the subject of the oldest surviving literary text in Sardinian ( Sa vitta et sa morte, et passione de sanctu Gavinu, Prothu et Januariu , mid-15th century) .

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  The basilica of San Gavino

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  Torre del Porto

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  Torre di Abbacurrente

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  Roman bridge (Ponte romano)

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  Su Crucifissu Mannu necropolis

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  Monte d'Accoddi

Web links

Commons : Porto Torres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.