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...
The Nuragic temple of Malchittu in Arzachena
Faced with the grandeur of the Eneolithic temple at 'Ziqqurat' in Monte D'Accoddi (Sassari), the monumentality of the protonuraghi and, as we shall see below, the tombs of giants, we would expect similar examples from the sacred architectur...
Tombs with architectural elevations
The Tomb of Giants is the type of tomb specific to the Nuragic Age throughout Sardinia: it too is characteristic of the Nuragic civilisation and finds no analogy with contemporary tombs on the Italian peninsula or in Europe. There are, howe...
The sacred wells of Matzanni in Vallermosa
Matzanni's sacred wells, in an article published by Unione Sarda back in February 2016. In his book 'La Religione Primitiva in Sardegna' (1912), Raffaele Pettazzoni cited "the two tholoi of Mazzani near Villacidro, called by the natives 't...