Septimo ab urbe lapide, originally its name was a reference to the seven miles that separated it from Cagliari. Settimo San Pietro is a town located in the southernmost part of the fertile Campidano plain, hence its prevalent agricultural activity. Where the settlement stands there was a Roman mansio (post station) on the road from Caralis to present-day Parteolla. Roman times are evidenced by the remains of an aqueduct. While the oldest human traces in the area date back to the Recent Neolithic: it is the domu de Janas de s’Acqua ‘e is dolus. From the Bronze Age is the nuragic complex of Cuccuru Nuraxi, on the hill of the same name, with a three-lobed nuraghe and well temple. At the foot of the hill is the Ark of Time, a multimedia museum and experimental center on cultural and archaeological heritage. It consists of functional areas: archaeological laboratory, play and educational area and archaeologists’ garden. The exhibit ranges from Neolithic settlements to landscapes, monuments and history of Cagliari and its vast area. Multimedia content is complemented by an educational trail that explores the archaeological findings of Settimo, particularly the site of Cuccuru Nuraxi and the cult of water (including other Sardinian well temples). <\/p>\n\n
The settlement still retains numerous mud-brick dwellings (l\u00e0diri). The Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist and, above all, the parish church of St. Peter, erected between the 16th and 18th centuries, stand out in the center. Of the original late Gothic layout, the building retains the facade, nave, and chancel, while the chapels and the last two orders of the bell tower turn out to be 17th- and 18th-century additions. The nave is divided into five bays, marked by pointed arch sub-arches. There are five chapels, the last two so deep that they serve as transepts. The others are all different; one is dated accurately by an inscription that attests to its construction, along with the bell tower, in 1627. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13392,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-13383","citta-della-terra","type-citta-della-terra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citta-della-terra\/13383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citta-della-terra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citta-della-terra"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}