It is one of the best-looking sacred wells in Sardinia and it has something extra: its top is a real puzzle. The structure attached to the tholos roof of the Nuragic fountain of is Pirois,...
It is one of the best-looking sacred wells in Sardinia and it has something extra: its top is a real puzzle. The structure attached to the tholos roof of the Nuragic fountain of is Pirois,...
The image that comes to mind as you observe it is that of an archaic stone lock, obtained from the rock, who knows how, also considering the absence of a construction element typical of similar structures built in Sardinia. The precision and care with...
One of the most celebrated, interesting and integral of the thirty-some Nuragic well-temples, where water worship was practiced, its name ‘fontana coperta’ (or covered fountain) well expresses its function and fine state of preservation....
Silent and solemn, ancient and somehow eternal—these monuments, alongside nuraghi, temples, and sacred wells, are the most powerful symbols of a civilization that...
Paganism and Christianity, prehistory and antiquity: fusion is the key word in a place with a bewitching atmosphere, where you can breathe in the thousand-year history of the island, from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, in a whirlwind of events...
One of the most significant and complete pieces of evidence left to us by the Nuragic civilization. Su Tempiesu is a well-temple dedicated to the worship of the water deities, built using the Opus isodomum technique with perfectly finished...
Thousands of kilometres of coastline designed by a bold but divine hand and, to welcome you ashore, a network of marinas, landings and tourist ports. That's not all... just behind the ports, lies the other Sardinia, where the great soul of the island...
Ancient Rome's passion for thermal waters extended to the far reaches of their empire, and an important neighbouring province such as Sardinia could not be missed. On the island they built their main baths in Fordongianus, to...
They looked at the world around them, the sea, the sky, the earth, and sunk into thought. Then they began to erect mysterious towers, increasingly complex and cyclopean, which mark Sardinia in an original and unmistakable way. Our ancestors were...
Crossing the threshold of the temenos, the sacred enclosure, you will be able to imagine the amazement of the ancient visitors before the magnificence of the monument, though the most surprising aspect does not catch the eye...