Sardinia is rich in history and culture, but it is unique in its testimony to the Nuragic civilisation (1800 - 238 BC), a people who continue to fascinate historians and the many tourists who come to the island every year.
Characteristic testimony to the Nuragic Age can be seen in the stone towers, known as Nuraghi, which were used as dwelling places and fortresses. These towers were built from square stone blocks and rose up in an elliptical or conic trunk. There are about 7,500 Nuraghi scattered throughout the territory and their presence demonstrates the uniform diffusion of the Nuragic civilisation over the entire island.
The Nuragic community was divided into the following social classes:

• The plebe, made up of shepherds, farmers, craftsmen
  and traders.
  
• The priests who practised the rites of the cult.
  
• The nobility, made up of rich land owners and warriors.
  
• The chief, the great patriarch of the tribe.
  

Religion played an important role in Nuragic civilisation. It was a polytheist religion with nature as its base: they worshiped the Great Mother, the God of fertility and of maternity as well as the God Taurus. The religious rites were celebrated outside, while the rituals concerning the dead were carried out at the burial places. The Sacred Well is an important characteristic of the Nuragic religion since it was where water was venerated, the new divinity of the Sardinian peoples.

Numerous archaeological finds of great importance have also been discovered inside the Nuraghi, among which many splendid bronzes, small bronze statues of men, animals and objects, which had a religious function, as votive offerings, or were simply ornamental.
Some magnificently preserved Necropolises dating back to the Sardinian Punic period bear witness to the importance the ancient peoples attributed to the cult of the dead.

Among the many Necropolises to see, we particularly recommend Tuvixeddu in Cagliari, Sulci in S.Antioco and Tharros in Oristano.
After the decline of the Nuragic civilisation the island experienced long periods of domination under the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Romans and then the Vandals.
Later, when Sardinia experienced a period without invasions for the first time in its history, the island was organised into four autonomous states, known as "Giudicati" (IX-XV AD).

After the fall of the "Giudicati", brought about by the King of Aragona, the island fell under the rule of the Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa, and later by the Aragonese and the Spanish, finally to pass under the dominion of the Savoy Kingdom.

With the Unification of Italy (1861) Sardinia became a Region
of the Italian Republic and since 1948 it has been an Autonomous Region with a Special Statute.