Trexenta

The area of the Trexenta, to the north-east of Cagliari, is a succession of greens and luxuriant countryside where orchards alternate with vineyards, olive-groves, and grain fields. Its favourable climatic conditions, helped along also by the abundance of water, have always determined a rich local production of wine, oil and wheat, still well renowned.

In fact, it is to its fertile landscape that its articulated historical stratification of human settlements is owed, that have sunk their roots since prehistoric times, to continue into in the Punic period when it became an important grain store.

In the medieval period and district of the Judiciary of Cagliari, the Trexenta was on the front line of the significant chapters of the artistic culture in Sardinia: in this way, in the Romanesque cathedral of San Pietro in Suelli it is possible to admire the important Retablo of San Pietro made in the Cagliaritano workshop of the Cavaro, protagonists of the new styles of painting in Sardinia in the 16th century; Senorbì, a town with nuragic settlements, was the birthplace of Giuseppe Antonio Lonis, the most important exponent of wooden sculpture on the island; Guasila, with the church of Santa Maria Assunta di Gaetano Cima, proposes one of the most significant examples of neoclassical architecture on the island.