Tuesday 12th December 2017

It was a bit misty this morning at our overnight parking place but as it was dry we decided to visit Tharros just up the road. This is a Nuraghic/Greek/Roman/Vandal site.

It cost 6 euros each for a combined ticket to visit Tharros and the archaeological museum in Cabras where many of the artefacts found here and at other sites around here are displayed.

The site at Tharros is absolutely vast and to date only a fraction of it has been excavated. Much of it is under the sea due to subsidence of the land.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post these columns are a modern addition to the site. How can anyone even think of doing something like that?

The interpretation of the site for visitors is frankly appalling. Perhaps some of the problem here is that archaeologists themselves find the site difficult to interpret as it has been occupied by so many different cultures over such a long period of time and that each culture has adapted the site making it difficult to work out what is what.

High up on the top of the site are the remains of a Nuraghic village thought to have been occupied about 3600 years ago.

One of the really memorable features of the site are vast areas of basalt paving. This is likely to have been of Roman origin.

 

We moved on to the archaeological museum in Capras. The standout attraction here is undoubtedly these more than life size Nuraghic statues which were placed above the graves of the people they portrayed.

  

As I mentioned in an earlier post there appears to be absolutely no historical record of the Nuraghic culture even though Greek people who had a written language certainly visited many parts of the Mediterranean during the appropriate historical period. Knowledge of this culture is therefore totally based on archaeological evidence.  

There are many Nuraghic artefacts in the museum in Capras.

These spear heads show skill in the use of bronze.

Having "done" Tharros and the museum we made quite a long journey south going through a range of misty mountains and finally down to the south west coast of Sardinia.

We stopped for the day at the town of Buggerru (I make absolutely no comment whatsoever about the name of this town). Here's the view from our parking place. The local surf school were at it out in the bay.

Here's their van.

We had a stroll round town and bought a few items in the small supermarket.

It was really quite warm this evening so we could watch the waves with the big sliding door on the side of our van open.

Today we travelled 76 miles (122 kilometres). We are at N39.40367 E8.40247

Buggerru   Street view