Sardegna - The Roads Less Traveled
We arrived to Sardenha, which Americans usually call Sardinia. Our first night was in Burumini, the site of a nurse hi. Never heard of a nuraghi? Me neither. It is “just an old pile of rocks”. The one at Barumini dates back 3600 years (1600 BCE), and was occupied to the sixth century BCE. For comparison classical Greece was just beginning in the sixth century. Turns out this was not unique. There are about 7 to 10,000 nuraghis in Sardenha. Hundreds or maybe thousands were destroyed. Farmers used the rocks to build stone fences. The highway department used them for Below is the map of Burumini nuroghe. The guide said this was basically a large family compound, 20 to 40 people lived here over a thousand years. The wall in the Maltese cross area is about ten feet thick. The tower originally stood about 60 feet high. The small circles were rooms and houses. Fascinating old culture I had never heard of. Everything was made of stacked rocks without any mortar. N...
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