Domus de Janas, dwellings for eternity

A circular itinerary, with departure and arrival in the Meilogu region and ‘crossing the border’ into the Logudoro Porto Torres area, allowing you to admire the extraordinary legacies left by the late Neolithic peoples. True ‘cities of the dead’, decorated to welcome and, somehow, ‘facilitate’ the passage of the deceased into the afterlife. Inside them, symbols and architectural elements seem to lead back to the desire to create domestic environments and invoke the protection of the gods.

Itinerary: 140 km

Road journey time: 2 hours and 45 minutes for the various journeys

Necropolis of Mount Siseri – Putifigari

Travelling west for about twenty kilometres, in an area dotted with nuraghi, you’ll be amazed to see what many consider to be the most spectacular ‘fairy house’ on the Island. The ‘tomb of painted architecture’, known as S’Incantu (The Enchantment). It is the only tomb of the four in the necropolis that can be visited. Bas-reliefs, sculptural elements, chiaroscuro paintings, columns with bull protomes. It’s incredible to think that it was built five thousand years ago.

S'Incantu - necropolis of Mount Siseri

Of the four domus de Janas that make up the famous pre-Nuragic burial ground in the north-west of Sardinia, this is the richest and most intact: its…

Santu Pedru necropolis – Alghero

A short journey, of about five kilometres, to visit the ten domus in the Santu Pedru necropolis. They are carved out of trachytic tuff and date back to the 4th millennium BC. Tomb 1 stands out for its long dromos (corridor), with traces of red ochre painting and architectural elements, columns, architraves, cornices and plinths, which suggest its use as a sanctuary. Tomb 4 was undoubtedly a sanctuary, converted into a church in the 6th century AD, with apses, altars and a cross carved into the wall.