PauliLatino, Tombs of the Giants of Goronna

The archaeological area is located on a low plateau, in the basaltic plateau of Abbasanta, in central-western Sardinia.
The site of Goronna — a veritable necropolis of giant tombs — includes 4 or maybe 5 burials, two of which have “curved steles”, are still preserved in good condition.
The main burial has a large arched exedra - with wings just mentioned - that is placed on the grave body without interruption with a concave-convex line. The grave body (long. 24.60 m) has an apsided bottom side and is made of processed orthostatic basalt slabs. The internal burial corridor (length. cm 17.78; width. m 1.30; height. m 1.40) is the longest known so far; its walls consist of a base of large orthostats on which rough blocks are placed in rows. The rows allow you to adjust the installation plan of the flat band roof, of which only one slab remains. The bottom side of the compartment is closed by a single headboard. At the center of the exedra hemicycle (rope 14.50 m) - built with large orthostats worked on the exposed surface (three of the left wing and six of the right wing are preserved) - stands the monolithic stele, currently broken (width. m 2.40; height. m 2.23), which originally had to reach at least 3.50 m in height. The monolith reproduced the hunched score on the forehead. The part still in situ shows a large frame (width. m 0.20) which, together with the horizontal strip, delimits a rectangular box: in the center of the latter, the entrance door to the burial opens, also equipped with a frame (width). m 0.40; alt. m 0.60). In front of the monument, some betyls are preserved.
The second tomb, located northeast of the previous one - and of a much smaller size - unlike the previous one, has a very distinct grave body and exedra.
The two or probably three burials that were supposed to complete the complex are located on the northern slope of the plank. Unfortunately, the buildings are in very poor condition and are hidden by shrub vegetation: the smaller tomb has part of the burial compartment - dolmenic in type, covered by flat slabs - while the larger one preserves some fragments of the curved lunette of the stele.
The tombs can be dated to Middle Bronze - Recent Bronze.

History of excavations
The major tomb was excavated by Ferruccio Quintavalle in 1892.

Bibliography
G. Lilliu, “An excavation ignored by Dr. Ferruccio Quintavalle in the Tomb of Giants of Goronna in PauliLatino (Cagliari)”, in Sardinian Studies, VIII, 1948, pp. 43-72;
A. Moravetti, “The Tomb and the Funerary Ideology”, in The Nuragic Civilization, Milan, Electa, 1985 (1990), pp. 121, 128, 131, tavv.135, n. 369, 145, n. 68; Archaeology and Territory, (Sassari, 16 June-15 July), Nuoro, Ilisso, 1990, pp. 165-166.

How to get there
Leave the SS 131 at the PauliLatino junction and continue on the SP to Bonarcado for about 1.7 km, until you reach a parking pitch, on the left. You leave the car and, following a path, you head down the basalt plank that rises to the left, a short distance from the road. The tombs of giants are located on the summit near the homonymous nuraghe built on the northern edge of the plateau.