Pre-Nuragic Complex of Monte Baranta

You reach the edge of the trachyte plateau of Monte Baranta and immediately sense that this was not a place to pass through by chance. In front of you runs a megalithic wall almost one hundred metres long, built from enormous blocks locked into the rock. It once protected a small pre-Nuragic settlement, six huts of which only the base courses remain, and a tower enclosure that dominates the escarpment like a stronghold. The structure is over six metres thick and more than three metres high, with a staircase that once led to a patrol walkway. Outside the walls, your pace slows. You come upon a fallen menhir and a large megalithic circle, eighty stone slabs forming a ring ten metres in diameter. This was a place of daily life, defence and ritual. The wind and the wide horizon complete the experience.