2d: Burials of giantsoof paladins,thus the inhabitants ofLurasThey call the dolmens (from Breton)tol–men, stone slab), funerary monuments built starting from the late Neolithic (3500-2700 BC), which have a concentration here like nowhere else on the Island. There are four of the 78 total in all of Sardinia, found in the town or its immediate vicinity:thecovered alleyofLadas and the dolmens with simple structure ofAlzoledda,CiuleddaandBillella. Built according to a trilithic system – horizontal slabs supported by vertical ones – serving as collective burial sites and, at the same time, as places of worship, they are compared with similar examples from the Basque Country, Catalonia, France, Corsica, and Minorca.
In the photos, the dolmens: Ladas (ph. Sergio Melis, Manlio Rubiu and Marina Olla, Romano Stangherlin); Ciuledda (ph. Maurizio Cossu, Romano Stangherlin); Alzoledda (ph. Sergio Melis); Billella (ph. Sergio Melis, Romano Stangherlin).
