Cava Romana

The wealth of material and favorable location for ship transport to Ostia have made sure that the coast of the town of Santa Teresa Gallura became, in Roman times, the site of choice for the extraction of granite.
The peninsula of Capo Testa, of Municca, Cape Falcone and the small islands of Marmorata still bear the marks of that intense mining activity.
At sites you can see the cutting systems and processing of granite that have transformed the soft contours of rocks shaped by wind in the walls are perfectly straight.
The system used was that "tiers", with the rock that was cut gradually from top to bottom, up to completely pave the emerging part.
The extraction was done for orthogonal cuts, drilled along the planes of fracture its natural granite that help unobtrusively portion of rock.
Clearly visible are the typical holes insertion wedges that have left their mark along the edges and planes natural detachment.
The quarries were exploited even in medieval times; In fact, from here comes the granite columns of the Duomo and Baptistery of Pisa.