Nora

The city of Nora were founded from the Fenice in VIII century. It is situated to the feet of a cape, dominated from one Spanish tower of the 500, in particularlyposition.

The city prospered for approximately 1500 years: to the fenice, and after the Cartagine and then the Romans; probably around to the WAYS century d.C. the last inhabitants were forced to abandon Nora for the continuous incursions of the barbaric, Pirates coming from the Africa North.

Nora was an important port of trades, to the center of the routes that connected the great ports of the Mediterraneo. Of the Punic period remain quarters, rooms and sanctuaries, like the temple dedicated to the goddess Tanit, and also one necropoli partially conserved. Of the roman lived, is visible, only the  imperial period. In that period the city was uniform in quarters: thermal complexes with mosaics, the hole, a splendid theatre, a market, temple, and rooms, between which it enunciates, for its beautifulst mosaics policromi, "the house of the entrance hall teatral"

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