Introduction.
Passing through the timeless and bare hills of Sardinia, it’s very easy to meet one of the more than 8000 nuraghe, buildings made of heavy stones (sometimes more than seven tons) and characterised by a cut off cone shape. Many others are probably still hidden underground or included on churches’ and cities’ foundations.

Building technique.
The great quantity of stones was collected and settled without any lime.

Who built them.
The local populations coming from the preindoeuropean Mediterranean, called Iolei, mixed to populations from the Balearic islands and from Corsica.

Origin of the name.
The word Nuraghe is preindoeuropean, and it meant hollow pile, hollow building, comeing from the Sardinian dialect “nurra”.
The Greeks used to call the nuraghe with the name “tholoi” and “dedalei”, the Romans "castra" and "spelonca".

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In depht
Leggenda sull'origine dei Nuraghi
Le Forme dei nuraghi
Funzioni dei nuraghi
Il nuraghe e il villaggio
La vita nelle capanne
Piccole industrie domestiche
Parlamento e tribunale
Influssi della cultura egea
Altre influenze e unicità nuraghe
Altre riflessioni sulle influenze
I Nuraghi e i Romani