Guspini offers visitors a variety of itineraries: wine and oil museum in the Murgia house, ironworking in the Agus house, wool, cheese and honey production in traditional Campidanese houses built with the raw brick technique. Typical are pastas (ravioli and malloreddus) and homemade breads, sweets (gueffus, pabassinas, pirichìttus) and artisanal beers, protagonists at the end of August in Sardinia’s largest trade show, Birras. Along the urban route you can visit the former granary mount, the Garau mill, the ancient Mascalcia, the parish church of St. Nicholas of Mira (17th century), which is a perfect fusion of late Gothic and Renaissance elements, and the Romanesque church, later enlarged in Gothic-Aragonese style, of St. Mary of Malta (12th century). Inside the city, in the hill of Cepera, are the columnar basalts of Guspini, a geological spectacle with few parallels in the world, dating back three million years. Significant is the legacy of the mining epic, which began in the mid-19th century. The decommissioned heritage is concentrated in the Montevecchio complex, ‘heart’ of mining in the southwest for a century and a half, now part of the Geominerary Park of Sardinia. You’ll visit buildings and machinery that tell of toil and passion just a stone’s throw from the Costa Verde.
The area has been frequented since the Neolithic: witness the megalithic circle of su Corrazzu de is Pillonis, the domu de Janas of Bruncu Maddeus and, above all, the two Perdas Longas menhirs, representing Mother Goddess and Bull God. A third menhir is near the sacred well sa Mitza de Nieddinu, a Final Bronze Age cult site with intact chamber and staircase. It is Nuragic heritage along with the Is Trigas well and about thirty nuraghi including Brunku e s’Orku, Melas and Saurecci. The main archaeological area is the ancient city of Neapolis, founded by the Punic in the late 5th century B.C., then occupied by the Romans who built large baths, cisterns and roads there.