Sedini, Domu De Janas La Rocca Museum

The exhibition is located in a unique monument located on the southern outskirts of Sedini, on the edge of the Baldana valley. The structure, excavated inside a large limestone rock, is divided into various rooms arranged on three floors connected and integrated with floors and walls. Modified several times starting from the Middle Ages, probably with prison functions, and inhabited until a few years ago, it houses on the lower floor a practically intact domus de janas from the final Neolithic period (3200-2800 BC). On the first floor there is a permanent photographic exhibition on the territory of Anglona (monuments, churches, archaeological sites, etc.). The second floor houses a permanent exhibition of fossils from the Sedini area, with about two hundred pieces from the Middle Miocene. Two rooms present the reconstruction of a stately home from the early twentieth century. Among the objects, a beautiful frame with a burning Sedinese carpet from the mid-nineteenth century, an inlaid wooden bed of local manufacture, but above all, a dagger from the eighteenth/nineteenth century that belonged to a Sedinese bandit. In an adjoining room there is a collection of jewels and amulets ('punga' /scapular, 'spuligadentes', 'sa reggia', etc.), donated by Sedinese families. On the left side of the building, spread over two floors, a nineteenth-century Anglonian peasant house is rebuilt, with about three hundred artifacts. The collection is very interesting, as it preserves the medieval structure intact, with the fireplace dug in the center of the room in the rock floor, the stairs carved into the same rock and several rooms on the first floor for the animal shelter. At the moment, a space is reserved for permanent exhibitions: a photographic exhibition on the territory of Sedini (landscape, archaeological sites, flora and fauna), a collection of fossils and an ethnographic-anthropological exhibition of everyday household and work objects and tools, dating back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Why it's important to visit it
Sedini's domus de janas is one of the largest in Sardinia. The Museum's greatest attraction is the photographs and original utensils recovered in old houses and cellars: baskets of reeds and reeds, baskets of dwarf palm and raffia, terracotta and iron objects.