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.The materials used to construct the tower are limestone and sandstone. In the lower part of the nuraghe, the blocks are medium to large in size. From a height of three metres onwards, instead, neat rows of long, narrow slabs were used. The monument has seen at least two construction phases.
The first staircase was in fact walled up, the first steps at the bottom of the garetta can still be counted. The second staircase, built at a later stage, is accessible through an entrance at a height of about 3.35 metres. Evidently, it was possible to access the raised stairwell by means of a ladder made of perishable material, which has now disappeared.
The nuraghe is located above a kind of platform or terracing, probably built to even out the uneven surface of the small plateau.Right at the beginning of the built-up area of Goni, coming from San Basilio, we take a dirt road on the left, which leads to the dam on Lake Mulargia; we follow it for about 1 km until the first fork. At this point, turn left and continue for about a hundred metres. Leaving the road, which recedes, we continue on foot up the steep slope of the hill. The nuraghe, visible from afar, can be reached in fifteen minutes.
Source: Ministry of Culture -Idese.
Photos are by: Marco Cocco, Nicola Castangia, Bibi Pinna, Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna and Diversamente Sardi.
