Porto Torres

Porto Torres is an Italian municipality that is part of the metropolitan network of northern Sardinia and the province of Sassari and of the provincial industrial consortium.

Founded by the Romans at the beginning of the second half of the 1st century BC on the mouth of the Riu Mannu, it was the first Roman colony on the island. Ancient capital of the Giudicato of Torres-Logudoro with the name of Torres, the city (and in particular its port) were of great prestige and importance in the Sardinian context for many centuries.

Episcopal seat until 1441, it was replaced by the city of Sassari in its function as an urban center of reference already in the late Middle Ages. The township, which became completely independent from an administrative point of view from Sassari itself only in 1842, officially gained the status of city in 1960.

Headquarters of the largest industrial area in Northern Sardinia, after the collapse of the industrial sector and the consequent process of deindustrialisation, linked in the meantime to the establishment of the Asinara national park, the city finds itself in a phase of reconversion from an industrial pole to a pole tourist.