“It is the most beautiful and certainly one of the most grandiose among the prehistoric constructions known as ‘nuraghi’; a very ancient word, predating the arrival of the Phoenicians, with which these monuments were approximately called by the same people who erected them, as towers and castles, to dominate and defend Sardinia from around 1500 to about 500 B.C. This island people, whose name we do not know, is therefore responsible for what is called the Nuragic Civilization.”…”The writer still remembers the profound emotion that, as a young archaeologist, he felt during his first visit to the nuraghe in 1952: an emotion, in truth, that unites every visitor of that monument, even if not particularly interested in archaeology. And this happens not so much when one sees the nuraghe from the outside or from afar, since it somewhat blends into the wide horizon of the plateau, but rather when moving inside the labyrinthine and grandiose stone structures, among cells, stairs, corridors, etc. A feeling of wonder that no photographic or graphic illustration can convey…”.
(Ercole Contu: “Il nuraghe S.Antine”. Guide and itineraries of “Sardegna Archeologica”, Carlo Delfino editore 1988).
The images of the nuragic palace of S.Antine in Torralba are by Diversamente Sardi, Bibi Pinna, Lucia Corda, and Francesca Cossu.
