CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Nughedu Santa Vittoria it runs 286 km to Nughedu Santa Vittoria; allow about 5 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Necropolis of Istevéne, Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos and back through Necropolis of Istevéne. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The high country of central Sardinia, between the Tirso river and the hills of the Barbagia, is a landscape of basalt plateaus, cork forests, small stone villages and long, empty views. The nearest places on our list, Nughedu Santa Vittoria and Neoneli, are small villages with only a few hundred people each, and the town of Macomer is some twenty-five kilometres away. The prehistoric story here is about how the island's early people treated their dead, and the title reflects that.
Read the complete Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa write-up.
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Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Istevéne.
In Sardinian folklore, the little rock-cut tombs scattered across the island were the homes of janas, tiny fairies or witches who wove on golden looms and came out at night. Archaeologists call them domus de janas, fairy houses, and date them to the Neolithic and Copper Age, thousands of years before the famous nuraghi towers. The necropolis of Istevéne, near Mamoiada in the heart of the Barbagia, is a group of these chambers cut into the granite, some with carved details imitating the beams and doorways of real houses, and it belongs among the prehistoric Sardinian tombs that have gained UNESCO recognition.
Read the complete Necropolis of Istevéne write-up.
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Necropolis of Istevéne comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos.
In the Goceano hills of north-central Sardinia, a low cliff of pale volcanic rock above the village of Anela hides one of the island's more striking prehistoric cemeteries. Sos Furrighesos is a cluster of domus de janas, the rock-cut tombs whose Sardinian name means houses of the fairies, carved into the face of the stone by Neolithic farmers some five thousand years ago. Some of the chambers are simple niches; others open into several rooms, and a few still carry carved reliefs of bull horns, a symbol you meet again and again in Sardinian prehistory.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos write-up.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos. Next is back through Necropolis of Istevéne.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Istevéne write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Necropolis of Istevéne, late in the day. Next is Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa. That is the ride.
Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa → Necropolis of Istevéne is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Istevéne → Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos → back through Necropolis of Istevéne is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Istevéne → Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sa is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.