1.3.1.gs01 Trips to Sardinia the Highland of Siddi

The vast highland of Siddi, for his elevated position with the confinements substantially to precipice, it was a rampart defensive disposition and the populations pre-nuraghic and Nuraghic they used this characteristic for their installations. Besides its position was strategic considering that she could watch the surrounding territories, a protected habitat naturally, in which the man protosardo has found shelter during the periods of struggle among the different tribes. Demonstration of this we are able today still to admire the rests of 16 nuraghes with to the center a splendid grave of giants (Domu de s'Orcu - Home of Giant). The Nuraghic installations has been displaced in varied points of the Highland: in strategic zones as the nuraghes Conca sa Cresia, sa Fogaia, su Concali, Liccu, the Red Crown; in the zones more easily accessible to probable testimony of periods of relative peace (nuraghe Molas, the Pardu, the Cross, the Mammonaia, Genna Maiu and Pranu Strintu) or in intermediary zones as the nuraghes the Sensu, Cuccuru Bingias, Corruardu and Pranu Casti.

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The structures of guardianship are recognizable whose work they have never been completed, probably for an absence of money and a general interest rather reduced.

Of the present nuraghes in this archaeological site few stones only remain, with exclusion of the Nuraghe Sa Fogaia (indicated to the n. 13) where present are still the surrounded building and some inside rooms with the corridors.

As it regards the graves of the giants, you can visit the denominated one "the house of the ogre" suitable to the n. 7, despite has partially been restructured.

Photo FonteSarda Giants' Grave denominated Sa Domu 'e s'Orcu (the House of the Ogre show to n. 7) - April 2004

The giants' grave (the Giant's House) it constitutes a discreet example of funeral architecture of the period Sardinian Middle Bronze (1500-1350 BC). It is found on the highland of Siddi in position distant from the precipices and enough central of the plateau. Its good state of maintenance is substantially owed to the great dimensions of the blocks of basalt with which she has been built. Just this characteristic of his has probably prevented that in the following periods and up to the first years of 1900 the materials with which the Grave had been built were removed for new uses, as unfortunately are happened with the greatest part of the present nuraghes in the archaeological site. Around 1940 this grave is also studied by a person that then it was a student of archaeology, the teacher Giovanni Lilliu, that has known subsequently to also return the historical value to other constructions of the Nuraghic period as the nuraghe of Barumini.

The structure of the Grave of the giants of Siddi consists in a central body to termination absidata and placed side by side in the prospectus by two wings that to the plant of the construction they confer the form of a head of bull. The Symbol of the Taurus is a sacred element that we often find together with the typical constructions of the sepulchers. The inside room is long 10 meters and wide 1,10 meters. The actual height of the structure is of around 2 meters and she is covered by a plain attic of great plates of stone. To the inside, to the left of the entry, we find a small hollow perhaps used for deposing you objects dedicate and offers or used for some funeral rite or to abandon a dead person with an important social position inside the village. In the rest of the inside room they came buried also the inhabitants of the numerous near nuraghes.

Of the other ancient Nuraghic constructions of the megalithic periods don't remain but few traces poorly signaled. Only in the last decades of the jobs have been undertaken for protecting and to restore this archaeological zone. Special relief deserves the Museum of the territory that with its cultural initiatives (shows and exposures of great artistic and cultural value) he has allowed the knowledge of these places a vast public.

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1.3.1. Voyages to Sardinia: Archaeological places, Highland of Siddi

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