The temples

In the Nuragic age, in addition to the numerous nuraghs, other types of stone structures were built, including, for their symbolic importance and architectural quality, those intended for carrying out activities related to the sacred.
The sacred buildings built in the Nuragic age are of three types: well temples, sacred springs and “megaron” temples.

Well temples are the other type of structure built in the Nuragic age in which the use of tholos is attested. Unlike the nuraghi, however, in this case the room with a tholos roof is hypogeal, that is, built underground. These buildings were linked to the cult of water, an asset that was always precious in ancient societies. Well temples went to look for water even at great depths.

In the vicinity of some particularly important temples, the sanctuary gave birth to vast “federal” villages, interpreted as areas in which periodic meetings between faithful from different areas had to take place on the occasion of holidays that were particularly important for island religion. Sacred sources also performed a similar function: in this case, however, the aquifer protected by the structure emerged directly at ground level. The third type of sacred buildings built in the Nuragic age is represented by the so-called “megaron-shaped” temples. The name derives from the structural similarity between this type of building and the Greek 'megaron'.

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12/9/2023 - 16:50