Museo Archeologico di Santadi

The Archaeological Museum of Santadi was inaugurated in January 2001, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the Archaeological Service and the Department of Archaeological Sciences and of history, art, University of Cagliari. The discovery in 1968 of ipogeico On Benatzu temple, dedicated to the worship of groundwater, had brought Santadi at the center of the Sardinian archaeological world: in the era of cave shrine nuragica were found thousands of vessels and a large number of bronzes including a tripod, sacrificial daggers, votive ships, a gold foil and remains of jewelry. Subsequently the temple were also investigated the tomb of the giants of Barrancu Mannu, the Phoenician city fortified Pani Loriga and prenuragic necropolis domus de Janas of Montessu, at the time located in the municipality of Santadi territory. Provisionally the finds were stored in Cagliari (in the National Archaeological Museum) and in Carbonia in Villa Sulcis, but the municipal administration of Santadi was activated for the realization of a suitable place to house these treasures: a modern archaeological museum. Once the museum, the City entrusted the dell'allestimento tenure at the University of Cagliari. Currently the Civic Archaeological Museum is run by the semata Soc. Coop.