Giant’s Tombs
Monumental collective burials in which, between the Middle and Recent Bronze Age, communities laid their dead. The large exedra formed a ceremonial space mediating between the living and the ancestors.
Nomination to the UNESCO World Heritage List
Monumental categories
The main forms of sacred and cult architecture in protohistoric Sardinia.
Monumental categories
A grammar of the sacred
Sacred wells and sacred springs
The core of protohistoric Sardinian religiosity, marking the island through architectural refinement and the symbolic centrality of water.
Megaron temples
Rectangular sacred buildings with articulated rooms, paved floors, seats, hearths, altars and cult devices.
Sanctuaries
Multifunctional religious centres where communities from distant territories converged, integrating temples, assembly spaces and community structures.
Meeting huts
Buildings for assemblies and representation, where political, social and religious functions were closely integrated.
Basin rotundas
Circular structures with a central water basin, linked to purification rites and water cults.
Monumental necropolises
Funerary and memorial spaces of the Early Iron Age, with the extraordinary case of Mont’e Prama and the cult of ancestors and heroes.
