CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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375 km from Alghero to Alghero, about 7 h 06 of riding. On the way it passes Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro, Necropolis of Puttu Codinu, Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu and Necropolis of Ispiluncas. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Not far from Alghero, on the flat land behind the coast, lies the largest group of domus de janas in Sardinia. Anghelu Ruju is a necropolis of more than thirty rock-cut tombs, dug into the sandstone with stone tools around five thousand years ago and later reused for burials into the Bronze Age. The site was found in 1903 when workers were preparing land for a vineyard, and excavations revealed chambers with carved bull's horns, false doorways and painted ochre, together with pottery, figurines and personal ornaments now displayed in museums in Sassari and Cagliari. The bull motifs are thought to have been linked to fertility and protection, and they give these dim chambers a surprisingly powerful presence.
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Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju is where the day begins. Next is Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro.
Most prehistoric tombs in Sardinia sit out in the countryside behind a gate and a dirt track. The domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parrocchiale are different: they are in Sennori itself, a few steps from the houses, carved into the soft limestone in what was once, as the name suggests, a garden belonging to the parish. A handful of chambers opens out of the rock, small rooms with low doorways, the work of Neolithic farmers who lived on this ridge thousands of years before anyone thought of building a church here.
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Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro comes up 41 km in. Next is Necropolis of Puttu Codinu.
Domus de janas means houses of the fairies, and that is what Sardinians called the small chambers cut into rock faces across the island, believing them to be the homes of tiny supernatural women. They are in fact tombs, carved out by the island's Neolithic and Copper Age people some five thousand years ago, often with rooms arranged like houses, carved doorways, false roof beams and symbols such as bulls' horns. The necropolis of Puttu Codinu, near Villanova Monteleone in north-west Sardinia, is a group of these tombs cut into a low limestone outcrop amid fields and scrub, one of thousands across the island.
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82 km in you reach Necropolis of Puttu Codinu. Next is Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
Four or five thousand years ago, people on the high plateau of Campo di Santa Lucia in Sardinia carved a whole apartment of rooms into a cliff of soft volcanic rock, to house their dead. The Sardinians call these rock-cut tombs domus de janas, houses of the fairies, and Sant'Andrea Priu, near Bonorva, has some of the most remarkable. The largest, known as the Tomba del Capo, has a series of chambers whose walls and ceilings imitate the beams and pillars of a real house. Centuries later, in the early Christian and Byzantine period, it was converted into a church and its walls were painted with frescoes, some of which survive.
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Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu, about halfway. Next is Necropolis of Ispiluncas.
In central Sardinia, on a slope above the village of Sedilo, a cluster of rock-cut tombs opens into the hillside like a row of small dark doorways. These are domus de janas, "houses of the fairies" in the local language, burial chambers carved into the soft rock by the island's prehistoric inhabitants several thousand years ago. Ispiluncas is one of the larger groups, with tombs of varied plans, some with multiple chambers and carved details imitating the beams and doorframes of houses. In 2025 the domus de janas were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, recognising one of the most distinctive funerary traditions in the Mediterranean.
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Necropolis of Ispiluncas sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
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back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu comes up 204 km in. Next is back through Necropolis of Puttu Codinu.
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245 km in you reach back through Necropolis of Puttu Codinu. Next is back through Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro.
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back through Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro, late in the day. Next is Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju.
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The route ends here after 375 km.
Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju → Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro → Necropolis of Puttu Codinu is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Puttu Codinu → Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → Necropolis of Ispiluncas is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Ispiluncas → back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → back through Necropolis of Puttu Codinu is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Puttu Codinu → back through Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Domus de janas of Orto del Beneficio Parro → Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.