Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Macomer
Places to see in ( Sardinia - Italy ) Macomer
Macomer is a town and comune of Sardinia in the province of Nuoro. It is situated on the southern ascent to the central plateau of this part of Sardinia, at the junction of narrow-gauge lines branching from the main railroad line running east to Nuoro and west to Bosa.
The district, especially the Campeda, is well suited for grazing and horse and cattle breeding, which is carried on to a considerable extent. Macomer, known to the Greek geographer Ptolemy as Macopsissa, has been inhabited since antiquity. In 1478 was the scene of the historical battle between the Sardinians and the Aragonese, which ended the independence of Sardinia. In 1767, under the Kingdom of Sardinia, it became the capital of the Marquisate of Marghine. The Marquisate included the nearby villages of Birori, Bolotana, Borore, Bortigali, Dualchi, Lei, Mulargia, Noragugume and Silanus.
In 1949, a statue called The Venus of Macomer was discovered in a cave located in Marras area, in a gorge of the river S'Adde. The artifact depicts a Goddess Mother dating back to the Palaeolithic period. It is about 14 centimetres (5.5 in) high and was built with local basalt. It is currently kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari. Nowadays, Macomer is a destination for tourists who want to admire the beautiful landscape around the city.
The region is richer in the bronze-age towers known as nuraghi than any other part of Sardinia. The old parish church of San Pantaleone has three Roman mile-stones in front of it, belonging to the Roman high-road from Carales to Turris Libisonis. A modern road now follows the ancient one. Recently an ethnographic museum called Le Arti Antiche (The ancient Arts) has been opened, where it is possible to see tools traditionally used for agriculture and livestock, folk costumes, and photographs. The Monte di Sant'Antonio (St. Anthony's Mountain) has a great historical and naturalistic importance; on 13 June of every year the anniversary of the Saint of Padua is celebrated there.
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Nuraghe S'Argalla a Villasimius ~ 10 Marzo 2018 | Viaggiare in Sardegna
Nuraghi di Villasimius:
In pochi sanno che a qualche decina di metri dal centro di Villasimius sono presenti diversi nuraghi, anche se nessuno è arrivato intatto fino a noi. Le quattro torri, difficilmente individuabili, sono situate nelle cime delle quattro verdi e ripide colline localizzate tra il paese di Villasimius, il Tanka Village e Campulongu. Il Golf Club del Tanka Village è stato costruito nella vallata alla base di queste antiche alture nuragiche. Tutta l'area risulta recintata, non solo alla base del campo da golf ma anche nelle cime delle colline dove sorgono i nuraghi, il che rende problematico raggiungerli. Le quattro torri sono orientate grossomodo come i quattro punti cardinali e sono chiamate rispettivamente: nuraghe Accu Sa Pira a Ovest ( lato Cuccureddu ), nuraghe Bruncu a sud-ovest ( lato Campulongu ), nuraghe S'Argalla I a nord e nuraghe S'Argalla nel lato sud-est ( lato spiaggia di Simius ).
L'idea era quella di esplorarli tutti e quattro in una mattina ma, visto che non esistono sentieri segnalati e le colline sono molto ripide e recintate in più punti, siamo riusciti ad esplorare solo il nuraghe S'Argalla.
La vista:
Una volta raggiunta la cima della collina rocciosa dove sorge il nuraghe ad appena 110 metri di altezza, si viene letteralmente rapiti dalla vista magnifica. In ordine di distanza, a nord-est abbiamo il paese di Villasimius mentre nel lato sud-ovest c'è la verdeggiante vallata del Golf Club del Tanka Village. Più in lontananza partendo da sud-est e spostandosi verso destra osserviamo nell'ordine: la lunga spiaggia di Simius, la spiaggia e lo stagno di Porto Giunco con la sua torre spagnola, il promontorio di Capo Carbonara infine il porto turistico della Marina di Villasimius. Più vicino a noi, nel lato ovest nord-ovest possiamo osservare le verdissime colline dove sorgono gli altri tre nuraghi nascosti dalla vegetazioni e il lontananza le alte catene montuose e ricche di sorgenti che forniscono di acqua di ottima qualità il paese.
Nuraghe S'argalla:
Finito di osservare il paesaggio incantevole, torniamo al nuraghe S'Argalla, della quale non ci sono informazioni sul web. Quello che appare evidente osservando la mappa e che era, insieme al nuraghe Bruncu, il più vicino alle spiagge. Della costruzione non è rimasto molto; possiamo osservare la base circolare di un monotorre costruito con massi di granito rosa, dotato di un muro spesso circa 1 metro e con delle mura residue nel lato nord-est di circa 1 metro e mezzo. Grazie alle immagini satellitari, possiamo calcolare che il suo diametro é di circa i circa 8,5 x 6,5 metri, leggermente ovale. Nel lato ovest, dalla quale si raggiunge la torre, un muro residuo alto circa 1 metro e la posizione di alcuni grandi massi suggerirebbero la presenza di un ingresso, ma visti i crolli è difficile dirlo con certezza.
Nella zona sono presenti altri nuraghi , i più vicini sono quelli delle colline di Cuccureddu, che esploreremo prossimamente.
Articolo scritto da Roberto Bodano.
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Il complesso funerario di Tamuli di Macomer - Archeologia della Sardegna
The area of Tamuli, placed on a plateau, is essentially an area funerary complex. The space is dominated by a poly-lobed profile protonuraghe by leaning on the summit of a rock outcropping. The turreted structure develops as archaic tower surrounded by a rampart to which were added two towers and, further, a complex of fifteen huts. Some studies talk of town but the most credible hypothesis outlined a system in which the funeral elongated structures identical to those of Santa Cristina Paulilatino, would seem the heroon (burials) or the Tombs of Giants archaic without hemicycle. The area bounded by a rampart, denotes a conformation as funerary district and includes, within it, the Tombs of the Giants and a dolmen. The three Giants' graves, tombs of the aristocracy, are assignable to the type to prospectus wall where the rib, the large front screen, is divided into three pieces. Regarding the Tomb At the door is placed to close the corridor funerary while the other two pieces to which reference is made remain on the site but disassembled from the context. The first rib is said, is at the center of the exedra and is decorated with notched recesses; the second, rear window defined, is slightly shifted from the grave, and has a pentagonal shape on the visible side shows a cantilever ogive. The best known element of the website are the six betili: all finely finished and ogival shape, in three of them there are two drafts mammillary.
Il Nuraghe Loelle di Buddusò - Archeologia della Sardegna
Excavated by Prof. Basoli in 1992, the Nuraghe Loelle looks abnormal in both the complexity of the system that the structure of the interior. The first date of forms and architectural features, we show how the structure is likely to be born as a protonuraghe and later was adapted to the more rounded shapes of the nuraghis evolved. One of the architectural features recognizable as an example of archaism is the use of the various outcrops as support elements both in the walls in the structure. Another detail worthy of note concerns the main entrance of the bastion: This does not open nor a courtyard or on an access corridor on the ground floor of the central tower, but through a flight of steps, spread to the second level - the first floor. The flight of stairs from the entrance to the rear of the structure and, in a clockwise direction, the first floor rooms bringing the customer in the front of the building. At this point, always on the second level, it verges on the SE tower and take a hallway in which you can see even in the case of coverage lintels. This corridor, originally covered, runs through the prospectus of the dolmen reaching up to the western side, where, oddly enough, back down to the first level - the ground floor. Almost half of path we see a flight of stairs from the interior corridor rooms on the second floor - the third level where you open the room of the central tower. We do not know precisely how high the rocks upon which the structure, but the evidence suggests that the central tower is elevated for at least two floors. However, there remain several questions on access and breadth of the rooms on the ground floor and rooms on the first floor, which we can only observe the outer walls. Access to the room of the central tower is preceded by two alleged niches: the left is sub rectangular in shape and very deep, like a sort of corridor, while the right really shows its shape apse and bounded. Outside the rampart, in the SE summit, you can see another situation certainly not common in nuraghis: downhill from the floor, was derived with stone threshold and jambs of several rows of stone, a bedroom with underground tholos , below the entrance - the scale of the complex.