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'{{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Su Nuraxi di Barumini | Image = [[File:Su Nuraxi 2.jpg|250px|Su Nuraxi in Barumini]] | State Party = [[Italy]] | Type = Cultural | Criteria = i, iii, iv | ID = 833 | Region = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe|Europe and North America]] | Year = 1997 | Session = 21st | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/833 }} '''Su Nuraxi''' is a [[nuraghe|nuragic]] archaeological site in [[Barumini]], [[Sardinia]], [[Italy]]. It was inscribed on the [[UNESCO]] list of [[World Heritage Site]]s in 1997 as ''Su Nuraxi di Barumini''. ''Su Nuraxi'' simply means "the nuraghe" in Campidanese, the southern variant of [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]]. The complex is centred around a three-storey tower built around the 16th century BC. At this site Italian archaeologist [[Giovanni Lilliu]] discovered a fortified village that at times had been covered by ground and had become a hill. He did the first excavations here in the 1950s.<ref name=openpr1>{{cite web |url=http://www.openpr.com/news/55884/Sardinia-s-World-Heritage-Site-The-nuraghic-village-of-Barumini.html |title=Sardinia's World Heritage Site: The nuraghic village of Barumini |date=2008-10-06 |accessdate=2008-10-16}}</ref> The classic nuraghic site is in the centre on a small hill, it is built of large stones, mostly unshaped but some, perhaps mostly the basalt, are shaped to make them more rectangle. The walls are massive and use classic megalithic construction techniques - huge lintels over doorways, and a corbelled vaulting system, that provides beehive shaped interior chambers. There are staircases - some of dizzying verticality within the width of the walls. When inside the nuraghe, there are a series of open courtyards surrounded by huge walls, and beehive shaped chambers. Some entrances are on upper levels and presumably would need wooden infrastructure to reach. There is a well in the courtyard, and some chambers have niches. The nuraghe is surrounded by a roughly circular plane of round buildings 200 of so of them. The guide said these were made partly of stone from the Nuraghe suggesting the village dates to a time after the towers were in disrepair. The village, we were told, continued into the Iron Age. In the village are circular rooms with a circular basin in the middle, with a circular seat against the wall around the basin. The seating is close to the basin and would have given an intimate gathering - and it would be very convenient for collective foot washing. Most sources suggest these are meetings rooms for elders to meet. This site would become important to the timeline of Sardinian civilization: "The relative chronology of Sardinian prehistory is largely based on the first modern excavation of a ''nuraghe'' at Su Nuraxi, Barumini. Giovanni Lilliu . . . used a combination of structural phases and pottery typology to construct a general Nuragic sequence."<ref name="James, Peter">James, Peter; et al (1991). ''Centuries of Darkness''. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 42.</ref> Nearby is another nuraghi site at Casa Zapata which has a museum as well as excavated remains. <gallery> Image:Inside su nurraxi 2.png|''Su Nuraxi'', seen on the way from the central tower to the east tower. Image:Inside su nurraxi 1.png|''Su Nuraxi''. Inside the central tower. The man here is 1.80 m. Image:Interiorview barumini.jpg ' 'Su Nuraxi''. </gallery> ==References== <references/> ==External links== * [http://www.fondazionebarumini.it/wordpress/?lang=en/ Barumini Sistema Cultura Foundation] * [http://www.neroargento.com/page_galle/nuraxi_gallery.htm Photo Gallery Nuraghe Su Nuraxi] * [http://www.nuraghi.org Nuraghi.org - informational page] {{World Heritage Sites in Italy}} {{coord|39|42|21|N|8|59|26|E|region:IT_type:landmark|display=title}} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Sardinia]] [[Category:World Heritage Sites in Italy]] [[Category:Archaeological sites in Italy]] [[Category:Former populated places in Italy]] [[Category:Archaeology of Sardinia]] [[Category:Visitor attractions in Sardinia]] [[cs:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[da:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[de:Nuraghe Su Nuraxi]] [[es:Su Nuraxi]] [[eo:Su Nuraxi]] [[fr:Su Nuraxi]] [[hr:Su Nuraxi]] [[it:Su Nuraxi]] [[he:סו נוראז'י די ברומיני]] [[ka:სუ-ნურაკსი-დი-ბარუმინი]] [[hu:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[xmf:სუ-ნურაკსი-დი-ბარუმინი]] [[nl:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[ja:スー・ヌラージ・ディ・バルーミニ]] [[pt:Su Nuraxi de Barumini]] [[ru:Су-Нуракси-ди-Барумини]] [[sc:Su Nuraxi]] [[sk:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[fi:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]] [[sv:Nuraghe Su Nuraxi]] [[vi:Su Nuraxi di Barumini]]'