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Extract from the Tharros Travel Guides:
Many people go to Oristano just to visit the Punic and Roman ruins at
Tharros
, twenty-odd kilometres from Oristano and served by two ARST buses daily. Like Nora, Tharros is pitched on a limb of land surrounded by water, though in this case it's a clenched fist, dominated by a sturdy Spanish watchtower. The peninsula forms part of the mouth of the Golfo di Oristano and was settled by Phoenicians as early as 800 BC. Tharros grew under Carthaginian occupation and then, after 238 BC, was revitalized by the Romans, who furnished it with the baths and streets that you see today. The town was finally abandoned in 1070 in favour of the more se...
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