Su Nuraxi di Barumini
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How it came to be
About 7,000 nuraghi, cone-shaped stone towers of the Bronze Age, are scattered across Sardinia. The oldest part of Su Nuraxi at Barumini is a central tower of basalt blocks, 18.6 metres high, with three chambers stacked inside.
In the Late Bronze Age four towers linked by a curtain wall were built around it, enclosing a courtyard with a well. In the Iron Age a seven-lobed outer wall ringed the whole, and the fortress was strengthened under pressure from Carthage. A village of huts spread around it between the 13th and 6th centuries BC.
The buildings were destroyed in the 6th century BC, later restored by the Carthaginians and then occupied by the Romans. The local archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu led the excavation from 1950 to 1957. UNESCO calls it the finest and most complete example of this form of prehistoric architecture, and it was inscribed in 1997.
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