Bonorva

Bonorva is a municipality in the province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia with 3601 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).

Bonorva is 52 km south of Sassari east of the highway SS131, 500 meters up on the plateau of Campeda. Borders the following municipalities: Semestene and Giave (SS).

On the plateau above Bonorva was a fortified boundary line between the Carthaginians and the Sardinian Nuraghen, of which the remains of a fort testify. In the village the Catalan Sardinian Church of the Nativity of Mary is worth seeing. To the east lies adjacent to the pastoral village Rebeccu with the spring sanctuary Su Lumarzu. A little further away are the Domus de Janas of Sant ' Andria Priu.

Above Bonorva was in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, the so-called " Punic- nuragical Limes". 150 m west of the ruined church of San Simeone lie the remains of a Punic attachment, some of the stone blocks are obtained with bosses.

In the Museo Civico ( in the former convent of the church of Sant ' Antonio) to find nuragical Baityloi and Roman milestones.

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