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Bronze Age stone towers and settlement remains of Su Nuraxi at Barumini in Sardinia's green interior
CASTELLO · LAGOONS & FLAMINGOS · NURAGIC SARDINIA

Cagliari & Sardinia

Cagliari layers port-facing streets, hilltop fortifications, Punic and Roman archaeology, lagoon birdlife and a long urban beach, while Sardinia's Nuragic monuments and southern coast reward deliberately timed regional routes.

Photo: Norbert Nagel · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cruise gatewayCagliari Cruise Port
RegionCagliari & southern Sardinia
Best lensHistoric quarters · archaeology · lagoon nature · coast · Nuragic heritage
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Marina & CastelloTuvixeddu & Roman CagliariMolentargius-SalinePoetto & Sella del DiavoloNora & PulaSu Nuraxi at Barumini
STONE TOWERS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE

Su Nuraxi turns Sardinia's Bronze Age into an architectural language of its own.

UNESCO identifies Su Nuraxi at Barumini as the finest and most complete example of the Nuragic defensive complexes unique to Sardinia. Developed in the late second millennium BCE, the site joins circular truncated-cone towers of dressed stone with corbel-vaulted chambers; it was later expanded and reinforced under Carthaginian pressure, and settlement remains surround the central complex. From Cagliari, Barumini is a separately planned inland journey whose feasibility depends on current access, transport and available time rather than an automatic short cruise-day stop.

Story source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Su Nuraxi di Barumini
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