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Altare prenuragico di Monte d’Accoddi
Sassari, Sassari, Italy
In the plains of northern Sardinia, a stepped pyramid rises—the only ziggurat-style structure in all of Europe....
Coddu Vecchiu Grave
Alzachèna/Arzachena, Sassari, Italy
In the Sardinian countryside near Arzachena, a granite stele rises four meters into the sky. Carved into its face is a doorway—not for the living, but for the dead....
Complesso Nuragico di Malchittu
Alzachèna/Arzachena, Sassari, Italy
A 1.5-kilometer path climbs through granite landscape to a temple older than the Parthenon by a millennium....
Complesso Nuragico Romanzesu
Bitzi/Bitti, Nuoro, Italy
In a forest near the source of the river Tirso, a seven-hectare sanctuary complex speaks of Bronze Age pilgrimage on a grand scale....
Complesso Prenuragico di Monte Baranta
Alghero, Sassari, Italy
On a hilltop three kilometers from Olmedo, a Copper Age complex challenges assumptions about prehistoric purpose....
Dolmen Ciuledda
Luras, Sassari, Italy
In a valley northeast of Luras, a small megalithic structure has kept its chamber dry for nearly five millennia....
Dolmen di Billella o Bilella
Luras, Sassari, Italy
Among the vermentino and nebiolo vines that cover the hillsides near Luras, a Neolithic dolmen rises less than a meter from the earth....
Dolmen di Ladas
Luras, Sassari, Italy
Six meters of gallery. A covering slab nearly five meters long. A polished backing stone of fifteen square meters....
Dolmen Sa Coveccada
Mores, Sassari, Italy
On a trachyte plateau south of Mores, three massive slabs of grey-pink stone support an 18-tonne capstone....
Domus de Janas di Borucca
Budduso, Sassari, Italy
Near the village of Budduso in northeastern Sardinia, a burial chamber carved from granite five thousand years ago tilts on its displaced boulder — a house for the dead...
Domus de janas, Sas Concas
Onieri/Oniferi, Nuoro, Italy
In a red trachyte outcrop near Oniferi, 20 rock-cut chambers hold one of Sardinia's most mysterious collections of prehistoric art....
Fonte Sacra Su Tempiesu
Orune, Nuoro, Italy
In the countryside near Orune, a sacred spring flows through the only Nuragic well-temple to preserve its original elevated structures....
Giant’s Grave of Sa Domu e s’Orcu
Quartùcciu/Quartucciu, Cagliari, Italy
Rising from the forested slopes of the Sette Fratelli mountains, the Giants' Grave of Is Concias preserves one of Sardinia's finest examples of Nuragic collective burial....
Giants' Grave of Sa Domu e s'Orcu
Siddi, South Sardinia, Italy
In the Marmilla region of southern-central Sardinia, a megalithic gallery grave bears a name that speaks of ancient awe: Sa Domu e s'Orcu—the House of the Ogre....
Necropoli a Domus de Jana's di Ludurru
Budduso, Sassari, Italy
A few hundred metres from the village of Budduso, six burial chambers carved from granite five thousand years ago compose the necropolis of Ludurru....
Necropoli di Li Muri
Alzachèna/Arzachena, Sassari, Italy
On granite landscape near Arzachena, five stone cists surrounded by concentric circles mark the earliest megalithic expression in Sardinia....
Necropolis di Montessu
Sa Baronia/Villaperuccio, South Sardinia, Italy
In a natural amphitheater of trachyte rock near Villaperuccio, over forty domus de janas—rock-cut tombs—line the curved face of a hill called the 'silent one.' For 1,500...
Necropolis of Pranu Mutteddu
Goni, South Sardinia, Italy
Across 200,000 square meters of the Gerrei countryside near Goni, approximately sixty menhirs stand in pairs, groups, and rows....
Nuraghe Arrubiu
Arrolli/Orroli, South Sardinia, Italy
In the fourteenth century BC, while Mycenaean ships plied Mediterranean waters, the Nuragic people raised a basalt fortress that would become the largest of its kind....
Nuraghe of Saint Constantine, Sa domo de su re (The house of the king)
Turalva/Torralba, Sassari, Italy
In the Valley of the Nuraghi, one structure rises above all others. The Sardinians called it Sa Domo de su Re—the House of the King....
Sacred Well of Saint Christina
Paulle/Paulilatino, Oristano, Italy
Every 18.6 years, moonlight descends a perfectly carved staircase to touch the sacred spring at its base....
Santuario Nuragico di Santa Vittoria
Serri, South Sardinia, Italy
On a basalt plateau 650 metres above sea level in central Sardinia, the Santuario Nuragico di Santa Vittoria is the most important ceremonial complex of the Nuragic...
Sito Archeologico Lu Brandali - Mostra di Archeologia Nuragica
Santa Teresa Gallura, Sassari, Italy
Lu Brandali preserves a nuragic village, tower, and Giants' Tomb on a granite promontory in northeastern Sardinia....
Temple of Antas
Frùmini Majori/Fluminimaggiore, South Sardinia, Italy
In a mountain valley of southwestern Sardinia, three civilizations constructed temples to the same deity under three different names. The Nuragic people called him Babai....
The Giants' Tomb of Barranc Mannu, Sa Tuerredda
Santadi, South Sardinia, Italy
To reach the Giants' Tomb of Barrancu Mannu, you must make a pilgrimage. The two-kilometer hike through the great ravine that gives the site its name transforms the...
The Giants' Tomb of Li Lolghi
Alzachèna/Arzachena, Sassari, Italy
Near the glittering coast of northern Sardinia, in hills that have witnessed four millennia of human passage, stands the Giants' Tomb of Li Lolghi....
The Giants' Tomb of Madau
Orgòsolo/Orgosolo, Nuoro, Italy
In the mountain valley of Madau near Fonni—Sardinia's highest town—four Giants' Tombs create a necropolis that approaches the scale of a city for the dead....
The Giants' Tomb of Osono
Triei, Nuoro, Italy
In the Osono valley of eastern Sardinia, a Giants' Tomb preserves evidence of transformation—from simple burial site to tomb-sanctuary where funerary rites continued long...
The Giants' Tomb of Pascaredda
Caragnani/Calangianus, Sassari, Italy
The path to Pascaredda winds through cork oak forest, crossing Rio Badu Mela by wooden bridge before arriving at a Giants' Tomb that speaks of renewal....
The Giants' Tomb of S'Ena'e Thomes
Durgali/Dorgali, Nuoro, Italy
In what Sardinians call the Valley of the Tombs, the Giants' Tomb of S'Ena e Thomes rises with a seven-ton stele nearly four meters high....
The Giants' Tomb of Su Mont'e s'Abe
Olbia, Sassari, Italy
At the foot of Pedres hill, minutes from where modern travelers land at Olbia airport, stands one of the longest Giants' Tombs ever discovered in Sardinia....
Tomb of Giants and Nuraghe Imbertighe
Bòrore/Borore, Nuoro, Italy
In the nineteenth century, the scholar Pinza declared this 'the most beautiful giant's tomb known in Sardinia.' The arched stele of Imbertighe rises from the earth with a...
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