Also known as Sa Fraigada, the tomb of the giants of Barrancu Mannu rises to the west of the rio Baccu Mannu, on the top of a hill. The village was probably further downstream, protected in many places by cyclopean defensive walls. The mo...
The Sa Perdaia Nuraghe
On reflection, stone is perhaps the element that most characterises the island's environment and, sinking its roots deep into the earth, makes it stable and secure. Often carved into the most bizarre shapes by nature's infallible chisel, at...
The Palace of the People Never Won
Gentlemen, welcome to the land of the Iliensi: here lived one of the ancient Nuragic peoples described by Titus Livius and Roman historiographers. But the legions of Rome never arrived here: at least until today, after a year of excavation,...
Nuraghe Santa Barbara at Villanova Truschedu
In Romano Stangherlin's shots, the beautiful nuraghe Santa Barbara in the territory of Villanova Truschedu. On the website of the Ministry of Culture -Idese, we read that this monument is characterised by the a tancato' typology, i.e. t...
The megalithic complex of Monte Baranta in Olmedo
The megalithic complex of Monte Baranta (Olmedo), the subject of studies and research since the 1950s, constitutes one of the most extraordinary examples of pre-Nuragic fortified settlements, attributable to the Copper Age and more precisel...
The Palmavera Nuraghe in Alghero
The Palmavera, in the territory of Alghero, is a complex nuraghe consisting of two communicating central towers, an antemurale and a village of 50 huts, as opposed to the original 150 to 200. The two towers are not coeval: the older one...
Lu Brandali archaeological complex in Santa Teresa di Gallura
The nuragic complex of Lu Brandali in Santa Teresa Gallura rises along the slopes of a granite promontory and the surrounding plain. It comprises a nuraghe, a village, a giants' tomb, several tafoni and rock shelters. The nuraghe exploit...
The Litu Ertiches nuraghe in Irgoli
Litu Ertiches is one of the nuraghi generally defined as 'minor'. It is located in the territory of Irgoli, near the SS 131 DCN. Built with white limestone ashlars on top of a rocky mass inserted in an environmental compendium of extraordin...
Nuragics, Philistines and Phoenicians
Professor Giovanni Garbini, on the discovery of an amphora with 'Philistine and Phoenician' inscriptions found at the site of S'Arcu 'e is Forros di Villagrande Strisaili, stated "the exceptional importance of the inscription, also constit...