Nuoro, Noddule Complex

The site is located on the border with the territory of Orune in Su Linnamene.
The complex consists of a nuraghe with a settlement, a tomb of giants and a fountain.
The nuraghe, built on a rock outcrop, belongs to the type of complex buildings: it consists, in fact, of a main tower to which three secondary towers have been leaning, in addition to frontal-side,.
The keep, with a circular plan (diam. m 7.90 on the filling; height 4.30 m) is made of granite blocks worked and arranged in regular rows. It is accessed through an S-oriented entrance that leads into a rectangular corridor. This passage has the entrance to a niche on the wall of the wall. Sections of the staircase - closed flat and currently obstructed by the collapsing material - can be identified today on the roof.
The entrance leads to the courtyard, semicircular in plan, with projecting walls, which connects the two secondary towers: the first has an irregular circular plan (diam. m 3) and has the entrance to an angled corridor that connects it with another adjoining room that has collapsed and invaded by vegetation.
The second tower has an arched entrance facing SE that leads into a corridor that is currently encumbered with collapse. Through this entrance, there is access to a sub-circular room (diam. m 3.50) that has two niches almost side by side on the west side.
On the surrounding land, over a large area, you can see the remains of numerous circular nuragic huts that are part of the extensive settlement attached to the nuraghe.
One of these buildings, perhaps the largest one (diam. m 10), has a central fireplace.
About 100 m from the nuraghe, in the SW direction, you could still see, until the seventies of the last century, the remains of a giant tomb: the burial, now disappeared, had the usual architectural form: an elongated body (length 8.53 m) enclosing the burial chamber (length m 4.90; width m 0.85), preceded by the hemicycle of the exedra (cord m 7.15) and with an entrance facing SE.
The sacred fountain is located a few hundred meters from the nuraghe.
The monument has a large vestibule and a catchment well preceded by a staircase.
The quadrangular vestibule (length m 3.60; width m 1.70; height m 3.30) is built with rows of carefully worked trachytic ashlars on which local granite blocks, of varying sizes, are placed in rather irregular rows.
The side walls are equipped with seat counters at the base; the right one has a small trapezoidal arched niche. There is a firebox near corner S.
A rectangular architraved door, with a small niche above the lintel, leads into the well through a short staircase.
The small cylindrical cell is made of processed trachyte ashlars arranged in regular rows. In the flat bottom there is a circular settling dimple. The fountain has a 'tholos' roof that ends with a tanning with an impervious conical hole.
The straight walls of the vestibule are joined by two wall structures with an irregular hemicycle that enclose an area in front of the fountain partially paved with granite slabs; the entrance is N-shaped, decentralized with respect to the axis of the staircase.

History of excavations
The complex was the subject of archaeological investigations in the sixties of the last century by Ercole Contu and Editta Castaldi, who intervened on the tombs of giants.

Bibliography
Ministry of Education, List of Monumental Buildings, Rome, Type Operaia Romana Cooperativa, 1922, p. 108;
A. Taramelli, “Sheet 207, Nuoro”, in Edition of the Archaeological Map of Italy, Florence, Military Geographic Institute, 1931, p. 13 n. 13;
E. Melis, Charter of the Nuraghs of Sardinia, Spoleto, Graphic Arts Panetto & Petrelli, 1967, pp. 29, 32-33; V. Santoni, “Preliminary note on the type of artificial funerary caves in Sardinia”,
in Archivio Storico Sardo, XXX, 1976, pp. 42, 45, 48;
G. Lilliu, The Sardinian Civilization from the Paleolithic to the Nuraghi Age, Turin, Nuova ERI, 1988, pp. 85, 215;
C. Bittichesu, The Tomb of Busoro in Sedilo and Nuragic Funerary Architecture, Sassari, Lorziana, 1989, p. 22.

How to get there
Exit Nuoro and take the SS 389 for Bitti; follow it up to km 13: the archaeological area, marked by a tourist sign, is located on the right of the road, at a distance of about 200 m.

Tag

Structure category: archaeological area or park

Content type: Archaeological monument
Archaeology

Usability: Open

Province: Nuoro

Common: Nuoro

Macro Territorial Area: Central Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 08100

Address: SS 389 - località Su Linnamene

Telephone: +39 320 9478405.

E-mail: info@nooraghe.com

Website: www.nooraghe.com/il-complesso-nuragico-di-noddule-nuoro

October - March

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

April - September

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

9:30 AM - 7:00 PM

Information on tickets and access:

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 7 €, adults, with guided tour, .

Reduced : 4 €, children from 7 to 12 years old, organized groups, .

Freeware : 0 €, minors from 0 to 6 years old, .

Services information: Guided tours are also available in English. The ticket with a written guide, without a guided tour, is available in all languages: it costs 5 euros for adults, it is free up to 6 years old. For children from 6 to 12 years old and for organized groups, the ticket with a written guide is reduced to 3 euros; the visit in this case has no time limit and can be done even in a very short time. There is an exhibition area with a multimedia station for 3D models and a tactile model area.

Other services: The area is equipped with a service center equipped with a shop, bathrooms, refreshment point, free picnic area with tables and benches. Other ancillary services to the site are being set up.

Update

12/10/2023 - 13:20

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