History of the Iron Range, Viale Regina Margherita - Cagliari
The building complex known as the "Scala di Ferro" was built over the century bastion of Our Lady of Montserrat (also called bastion of "dead" or St. James), on the ancient walls that protected the harbor area . The bastion was used since 1850 by the National Guard as a parade ground and then hold in 1859, the bathing establishment Cerruti, designed and built by engineer Antonio Cerruti, to provide the city with public restrooms. Le due torri merlate, in stile neogotico, risalgono al 1869, anno dell'inaugurazione, mentre l'avancorpo centrale interno, che si affacciava su un giardino alberato, venne costruito sul finire dello stesso secolo. L'albergo, per mano del ristoratore Luigi Caldanzano, aprì i battenti nell'ottobre del 1877 ma finì all'asta sedici anni più tardi. Successivamente l'ingegner Fulgenzio Setti lo acquistò e introdusse le acque termali nello stabilimento balneare, ripristinò le piscine e restaurò le strutture alberghiere che, nelle stampe pubblicitarie dei primi del Novecento, mutarono il nome in "Castello Setti". Nel 1921 l'albergo ospitò il celebre scrittore D.H. Lawrence durante il suo soggiorno a Cagliari. Nel 1961 la Compagnia Italian "Jolly Hotels" bought the complex and after restoring it, it closed a few years later. After years of neglect, based on the draft presented by the current owners' association in August 2000, in agreement with the City of Cagliari, work began to build the new headquarters of the Prefecture with residence and adjoining car parks below.
During the reconstruction works of the complex of the Iron Range has been possible to highlight a portion of the Roman necropolis, already known from previous discoveries and archaeological excavations. Under the filling century has identified several types of burial attributable to distinct chronological phases. The area, in north-western section, returned to cremation burials (in mass graves or urns) and inhumation, with outfits dating from the mid-third century BC to first century AD Further east is a small burial area was found untouched monumental, four burials in sarcophagi, in four incineration cinerari stones and topped with a soup kitchen in stone and lime. The stones and urns, local white limestone, are attributable to a chronological period between the end of the century and the first half of the second century AD, while the canteen and the coffins were laid at a later date. The life of this area had to continue even after the arrangement of the sarcophagi, where you can see traces of tampering to relate with later openings for new depositions. At the northern edge of the area came to light a quadrangular monumental tomb built with limestone blocks square. The monument, broken in ancient times, it contains six niches containing cremation urns.
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