interesting building

Why I see a city sinking into the sea giving me a strange feeling

The Tophet, sanctuary of children, impressive quantity of urns of human beings at the beginning of life and the hypotheses on their premature end…..

Fascinating, archaeologists at work.

There are little pieces of broken pottery just laying on the ground all over Tharros, these ones are right here and they make me think about people building things here for a very long time. This is a site so rich with the past that the trail stones are part of the story.

Because I saw the ability to sculpt the stones with squaring and joints.. because this is a basalt and you have to know the soul of the stone.. the sensation is to feel the hammer as it hits the chisel and the only note was the mistral with its sound and its freshness.. with its perfumes a

To report the presence, in my opinion, of too much grass

Because I imagined walking into a 2000 year old home

The change can be perceived in the various architectures, the abandonment in the silences among the ruins, the transformation into a place of memory: from a living city to a witness of the past.

Because here we never stop "meeting", different cultures, different languages, different nationalities all in a place of history, in the present to make the future of a glorious place flourish.

I see changes like signage and other things, there is definitely a desire to improve, I would pay attention to keeping the grass cut and tidy but it is not easy

Structures from different periods talk together after millennia and at millennia of distance, the construction technique changes over time, but the place is always the same!

I imagine sitting on a stone wall, still warm from the day's sun, while the sunset colors the sky orange. In my hand, a terracotta cup filled with dark, full-bodied wine. Around me, the voices of the merchants.

A glass of wine, a sacred drink to the gods, sitting in a sacred place gazing at the sea and the horizon

Lonely man

I saw the change, from the abandonment of a site which is preserved but without life, to the excavation, which brings it back to life! Colours change, vegetation change and knowledge about that portion of space

I have a photo of my grandfather, taken during the excavations at Tharros, in front of a similar wall

Colours in an otherwise colourless site, surrounded by other beautiful colours.

Childhood memories

Carefree, beauty, quiet

As soon as I set foot among the ruins of Tharros I feel the warm sun on my skin and a salty breeze coming from the sea. In front of me the ancient columns, white and worn, in contrast with the blue of the sea. I walk feeling the irregular consistency of the stone under my feet. I hear the seagulls and, further away, the sound of the waves that comes from "the living sea", the scent of myrtle and the salty air...

The sun kisses our land, the Mediterranean herbs give off the scents of home, the mistral is our brother

The sensation I currently feel is that of distance. To be here at the ancient city, with a direct view to the other side of the bay, it makes me wonder about how it will have been to be so close visually to other peoples, other activities, other worlds and opportunities, yet still so far away in a practical sense of travel and connection.

Liveability and usability

It reminds me of the stories my grandfather used to tell