Nuraghic culture
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- Bronze Age art
history of
- Sardinia
- In Sardinia: Prehistoric and Phoenician settlement
…said to exist) is the nuraghi: truncated conic structures of huge blocks of basalt taken from extinct volcanoes, built in prehistoric times without any bonding. Most nuraghi are quite small, but a few are obviously fortresses. There is also a nuraghic village near Dorgali with traces of about 80 buildings…
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- Western architecture
- In Western architecture: Sardinia and Corsica
Around the nuraghi press the round huts of villagers, which are, in turn, surrounded by solid ramparts. The complex thus constitutes an architectural unity, which arose from a patriarchal society in which families fearfully gathered around their clan chief. There is a kind of rough beauty in…
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