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Dorgali
Dorgali ( sc, Durgali) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region Sardinia, located about northeast of Cagliari and about east of Nuoro in the Seaside Supramonte mountain area. Economy is mostly based on the vine and wine production and, in summertime, on tourism. In one of the caves, Ispinigoli, the only known specimen of the extinct giant otter ''Megalenhydris'' was found. It is the birthplace of blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu. Main sights *Nuraghe villages of Tiscali and Serra Orrios *Other prehistoric nuraghes, dolmens, menhir A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found ...s and Domus de janas * Giants' grave of S'Ena'e Thomes * Motorra Dolmen *Beach of Cala Gonone * Grotta del Bue Marino * Ispinigoli Cave * Tiscali Cave Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cala Gonone
Cala Gonone is an Italian seaside town and a civil parish (''frazione'') of the municipality (''comune'') of Dorgali, Province of Nuoro, in the region of Sardinia. In 2007 it had 1,279 inhabitants. History The area around Cala Gonone was inhabited in the Nuragic Era. The remains of a Nuragic settlement can be seen at Nuraghe Mannu on the outskirts of the village, just off the road to Dorgali. The modern village was founded by a colony of fishermen from the island of Ponza at the beginning of the 20th century. The town however remained largely isolated from the rest of Sardinia until the tunnel through the hills from Dorgali was opened in 1860. Geography The town is situated in the Bay of Orosei on the east of the island and in the geographical region of Supramonte, 9 kilometers from Dorgali, 41 from Nuoro and 108 from Olbia. Close to the village, and reachable by the sea, is the show cave of Bue Marino. Many boats from small speedboats to large tourist boats dock in at the Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorra Dolmen
The Motorra Dolmen ( it, Dolmen di Motorra) is a Bronze Age tomb or dolmen situated in the comune of Dorgali in the Province of Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. Location The dolmen is situated 8 kilometres (5 miles) to the north of Dorgali on the S125 road towards Orosei. A sign by the side of the road marks the track that leads to the dolmen. A few kilometres away is the Ispinigoli Cave. Description The dolmen consists of an entranceway which leads to a polygonal chamber. The eight upright stones of the chamber support an almost circular slab of schist. The dolmen is one of many ancient sites around Dorgali, and is one of the best preserved dolmens in Sardinia. Finds of pottery have linked the dolmen to the Ozieri culture The Ozieri culture (or San Michele culture) was a prehistoric pre-Nuragic culture that occupied Sardinia from c. 3200 to 2800 BCE. The Ozieri was the culmination of the island's Neolithic culture and takes its name from the locality where early ... of the Bronze (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giants' Grave Of S'Ena'e Thomes
The giants' grave of S'Ena'e Thomes is a nuragic-era archaeological site located in the municipality of Dorgali, in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia. The tomb, dating back to the Bronze Age, has a dolmen structure with a central stele. The large exedra is composed of slabs stuck into the ground and sorted by descending size from the stele. The funeral hall, rectangular in shape and about 11 m length, is covered with large stone slabs arranged in a Jack arch. File:Sa ena e thomes 2.jpg, Entrance File:Dorgali01.jpg, Interior File:Sa ena e thomes 1.jpg, Exterior File:Tomba dei Giganti - Modello 3D (1).jpg, 3D model File:Tomba dei Giganti - Modello 3D (5).jpg, 3D model cross-section External links * * Dorgali, tomba di giganti di S'Ena 'e Thomes(in Italian) Buildings and structures in Sardinia Megalithic monuments in Italy Tourist attractions in Sardinia Archaeological sites in Sardinia Nuraghe {{Italy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiscali (village)
Tiscali Village is an archaeological site situated in Sardinia, in the comune of Dorgali. It is situated within a large cave in Monte Tiscali. It consists of the remains of a number of round dwellings dating from the first millennium BC. The site was re-discovered a little over a century ago and was first documented by the Italian historian Ettore Pais in 1910 Serra Orrios e i monumenti archeologici di Dorgali Alberto Moravetti http://www.sardegnacultura.it/documenti/7_46_20060401103605.pdf and then in greater detail by Antonio Taramelli in 1927. There was a short excavation campaign in 2000 by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le Provincie di Sassari e Nuoro. Telecommunications company Tiscali Tiscali S.p.a. () is an Italian telecommunications company, based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that provides internet and telecommunications services to its domestic market. It previously had operations in other European nations through its acquisitio ... took its name from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
Maria Sagheddu (17 March 1914 – 23 April 1939) - in religious Maria Gabriella - was an Italian Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Trappists. Sagheddu had an intense spiritual devotion to ecumenism - something for which she had offered her life - since she desired that all would become one in Jesus Christ. Her childhood saw her noted as stubborn and obstinate though her increased activeness in teaching catechism and joining Azione Cattolica saw those qualities melt and become gentleness and careful attentiveness. Sagheddu was beatified in Rome in 1983. Life Maria Sagheddu was born to shepherds in Dorgali on 17 March 1914 as the fifth of eight children to Marcantonio Sagheddu and Caterina Cucca. Her father and one brother died in 1919 as did two other brothers sometime in their childhood. Sagheddu was said to be obstinate as a child but was also known to be obedient; she was also described as being prone to laziness on occasion. Once she concluded he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuragic Complex Of Serra Orrios
Serra Orrios is an important Nuragic archaeological complex located in the municipality of Dorgali, in the province of Nuoro. Description The site, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, is a sanctuary village, one of the best conserved of the Nuragic Sardinia, consisting of a hundred or so of circular huts, simple or even complex and clustered in isolation, and two sacred areas surrounded by sacred fences that separate them from the dwelling, inside which there are two temples of the megaron type. It was excavated between 1936 and 1938 by Doro Levi. Subsequently, in 1961, the site was restored under the direction of Guglielmo Maetzke. Bibliography *Albero Moravetti, ''Serra Orrios e i monumenti archeologici di Dorgali'' (PDF), sardegnacultura.it. Archaeological sites in Sardinia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supramonte
The Supramonte is a mountain range located in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy. It lies northeast of the Gennargentu massif, traveling eastwards until it reaches the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Gulf of Orosei. It has an area of about 35,000 hectares, encompassing most of the territories of the ''comuni'' (municipalities) of Baunei, Dorgali, Oliena, Orgosolo and Urzulei. The populated areas of these ''comuni'' lie at the borders of the Supramonte, which, for the most part, is a largely uninhabited area of sharp limestone cliffs and deep, lush canyons. Geography Its highest peak is Monte Corrasi (1,463 m), and the average altitude of the chain is about 900 m. The Supramonte is characterized by Karstic highlands in which rivers have created deep ravines and canyons. The rivers flow mostly underground, creating several caves, such as the Grotta del Bue Marino, the Grotta di Ispinigoli (with the highest '' column'' in Europe, measuring 38 m), and the caves of Sa O'he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grotta Di Ispinigoli
The Grotta di Ispinigoli is a karst cave in the Supramonte range, near Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. Overview One of the largest caves on the island, it contains the tallest column, the tallest in Europe and one of the tallest in the world, measuring circa 38 m in total. The cave also includes the so-called ''Abisso delle Vergini'' ("Abyss of the Virgins"), a c. 60 m-deep hole leading to a 12 km series of caves connecting Ispingoli to San Giovanni su Anzu cave. Inside the cave were found traces of human bones and jewelry dating back the Bronze Age, the site was used as burial place by the Nuragic people. At the bottom of the abyss, were found traces of the extinct giant otter ''Megalenhydris''. This animal is one of four species of extinct endemic otters on the island. See also * Bue Marino Grotto * Tiscali Cave *List of caves This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ispinigoli
The Grotta di Ispinigoli is a karst cave in the Supramonte range, near Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. Overview One of the largest caves on the island, it contains the tallest column, the tallest in Europe and one of the tallest in the world, measuring circa 38 m in total. The cave also includes the so-called ''Abisso delle Vergini'' ("Abyss of the Virgins"), a c. 60 m-deep hole leading to a 12 km series of caves connecting Ispingoli to San Giovanni su Anzu cave. Inside the cave were found traces of human bones and jewelry dating back the Bronze Age, the site was used as burial place by the Nuragic people. At the bottom of the abyss, were found traces of the extinct giant otter ''Megalenhydris''. This animal is one of four species of extinct endemic otters on the island. See also * Bue Marino Grotto * Tiscali Cave *List of caves This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megalenhydris
''Megalenhydris barbaricina'' is a Late Pleistocene giant otter from Sardinia. It is known from a single skeleton, discovered in the ''Grotta di Ispinigoli'' near Dorgali, and was described in 1987. The species is one of four extinct otter species from Sardinia and Corsica. The others are ''Algarolutra majori'', '' Lutra castiglionis''Pereira, E., and M. Salotti. "Cyrnolutra castiglionis, a new otter (Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Middle Pleistocene'Castiglione 3CG'deposit (Oletta, Corsica)." Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Séries IIA 331.1 (2000): 45-52/ref> and '' Sardolutra, Sardolutra ichnusae''. This otter was large, possibly even larger than the extant '' Pteronura'', which can reach two meters in length. The structure of the teeth points to a diet of shellfish and/or crustaceans. A special characteristic of the species is the flattening of the first few caudal vertebrae The spinal column, a defining synapomorphy shared by nearly all vertebrates,Hagfish ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Nuoro
The province of Nuoro ( it, provincia di Nuoro; sc, provìntzia de Nùgoro) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro. It has an area of , and, , a total population of 210,972. The province is divided into 74 ''comuni'', the largest of which are Nuoro (36,925 inhabitants), Siniscola (11,492), Macomer (10,043), and Dorgali (8,576). The other ''comuni'' are generally not so large, even if Oliena (7,123 inhabitants) and Orosei (7,025) can be considered as well as populated towns. The province was established in 1927.''Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 1356. In 2005, the territory of the Province of Nuoro was substantially reduced as a consequence of the establishment in the island of four new provinces; subsequent administrative reforms have increased its size once again in 2016, through the annexation of 22 out of the 23 communes which made up the short-lived Ogliastra. Parks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island of Corsica. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of domestic autonomy being granted by a special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian and Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city. The capital of the region of Sardinia — and its largest city — is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of Italy's twelve officially recognized linguistic minorities, albeit gravely endangered, while the regional law provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
