About Cagliari

Cagliari (Italian: [ˈkaʎʎari] ( listen); Sardinian: Casteddu de Callaris or simply Casteddu; Latin: Caralis) is an italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has 149.883 inhabitants, and 453.728 including its (metropolitan area): Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu Sant'Elena and other 15 municipalities.

An ancient city with a long history, Cagliari has seen the rule of several civilizations. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia (which in 1861 became the Kingdom of Italy) from 1324 to 1848, when Turin, the mansion othe sovereigns, became the formal capital of the kingdom. Seat of the important University of Cagliari from 1607 and the Primate Roman Catholic archdiocese of Sardinia, from the Vth century A.D., the city is an important regional cultural, educational, political and artistic centre, known for its diverse Art Nouveau architecture and several monuments. It is also Sardinia's economic and industrial hub, having one of the biggest ports in the Mediterranean sea, an international airport, and the 28th highest income rate in Italy, comparable to several Northern cities, such as Turin, Vicenza and Genoa. Under the buildings of the modern city there is a continous stratification of human settlments of about five thousends years, from neolithic era to nowadays. There are the Domus de janas, very ruined by cave activity, a great Carthaginian era necropolis, a great roman era anphitheatre, a byzantin basilica church, two extraordinary pisan era towers, a formidable system of fortification that made the town the core of the spanish Habsburg imperial power in western mediterranean sea. Its natural resourses always were its sheltered harbor, the powerfully fortificable hill of monti castru, the modern Casted