Su Nuraxi di Barumini

Su Nuraxi ( German " Nuraghe ", a prehistoric Tower ) is the best preserved large Nuraghe in Sardinia. It is perched on a hill one kilometer outside of the small town in the province of Medio Campidano Barumini. The place is situated on the northern edge of a hilly landscape that bears because of it was shaped cone mountains the name Marmillan (chest ).

The settlement was declared in 1997 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site; their complexity was not recognized until 1949 after days of rainfall and slipping a hill.

The central Nuraghe towers, 15 m high, on a small hill Marmillan whose eponymous Kegelberg is located in the form of a female breast vis- à-vis. It is a first erected Kernnuraghen which was later surrounded by a wall with four outer towers. In the second outer wall rings are the remains of another, the original nine, tower structures. The entire outer area is surrounded by about 150 former foundation remains mostly round huts, called the village, which lies outside the walls of the five - towered core structure, so was unprotected. The central tower ( Mastio ) dates from about the middle of the 2nd millennium BC He has below a diameter of 10 m and tapers up to the third, only rudimentary floor at 5 m. The oldest parts of the settlement date from around 1200 BC, most of the walls is about 200 to 400 years younger. Su Nuraxi was destroyed about 600 BC by the Carthaginians. The place is accessible to tourists.

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Location

Su Nuraxi is 1 km outside the small village of Barumini on the road to Tuili. It is close to the Nuraghe Is Paras and Su Mulinu, the late Catalan-Gothic parish church of Gesturi and the Parco Archeologico find the protonuraghi Brunku Madagui, one of the oldest Nuraghe.