Su Nuraxi (Nuraghe of Barumini)

The nuragian palace called Su Nuraxi rises westward of Barumini's village and is the widest centre of nuragian civilisation arrived till today, so that it has been classified by UNESCO part of the World Heritage
Around the first big central tower, in the centuries from XII to VI b. C.,
first arose a big fortress and then a whole town.
In the central core the the big tower is surrounded by a mighty four lobes stronghold, with four towers disposed at the four cardinal points whilst the entrance is north-westward.
All the structure are built as Cyclopean walls, with huge blocks of stone. As a matter of fact before the invention of grouts enormous blocks where used, as big as to prevent the enemy to eradicate them from walls.
Then around the fortress a whole village arose of approximately fifty cylindrical buildings (that probably had a wooden thatched roof). It is interesting to note that there where several spaces dedicated to Water goddess, which was typical of nuragic civilisation. After Carthaginian conquest this religion was prohibited, but these places were not destroyed but simply sealed up, to avoid Gods' anger.
Su Nuraxi was inhabited also in Romans' times and was definitively abandoned only in the I century b. C.
The whole archaeological site was excavated between 1940 and 1956 by archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu, restoring very well maintained spaces.
Only guided visits.