The area includes two complex nuraghi with a village, located at a distance of about 50 metres from each other, and a giants' tomb. Nearby is a Romanesque-style church. Of the two nuraghi, the westernmost is probably the oldest; it must...
The Tomb of the Giants of Su Monte ‘e S’Abe in Olbia
The tomb of the giants of Su Monte 'e S'Abe is a typical funerary monument from the Nuragic period. It is one of the largest collective tombs in Sardinia. It is composed of a burial corridor, covered with horizontal slabs (piattabanda) a...
The Nuraghe Goni in Goni
The monument is located on a narrow plateau overlooking the valley in which the village of Goni lies. It is a single-tower nuraghe, with a residual height of about nine metres and with a still intact tholos chamber a good eight metres high...
Protonuraghi
The first phase of the Nuragic civilisation can be made to coincide with the Middle Bronze Age (1800-1400 B.C.), and is mainly characterised by the building of protonuraghi. According to archaeologist Paolo Melis, these are "... buildin...
The tomb of giants of San Cosimo at Gonnosfanadiga
How many tombs of the giants, domus de janas, nuraghi or sacred wells are there? Establishing this is not difficult... it is impossible; because to the many thousands dating back to the Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze Age, new discoveries...
Cossoine and its monuments
The Aidu (Cossoine) is 'the main nuraghe in the area, directly connected to the neighbouring Nuraghe Corru Oes. The quadrilobed has a soaring central tower built with semi-squared stone recourses. The mighty collapse obliterates the main c...
The Scerì nuraghe in Ilbono
Within a valley surrounded by dense spontaneous vegetation, it is possible to visit an important and evocative archaeological complex that testifies to phases of life in the Ilbono area in pre-Nuragic and Nuragic times. The main core, fr...
The holy well of Tattinu in Nuxis
At the foot of a relief in Sulcis, in south-western Sardinia, there is a sacred spring, hidden among the trees, which differs from the others in certain characteristics Its construction peculiarities are a mystery: it is not clear whether...
Nuraghi in Orgosolo
There are images that make one throb. We propose some particularly fascinating ones. In the shots by Maurizio Cossu, Giovanni Sotgiu, ArcheoUri Vagando and Cinzia Olias, the Mereu nuraghe or Intro 'e Padente and the Gorroppu or Presethu...