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 Ossi it runs 505 km to Ossi; allow about 9 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu, Necropolis of Ispiluncas, Necropolis of Istevéne and Su Nuraxi di Barumini. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Inland from Sassari, the Logudoro is a country of limestone ridges, small towns of honey-coloured stone and fields enclosed by dry walls, and in its folds lies the necropolis of Mesu 'e Montes, near the villages of Ossi, Muros and Florinas. It is a group of domus de janas, the rock-cut tombs of Sardinia's prehistoric farmers, some of them richly decorated with carved pillars, false doors and the stylised bull horns that seem to have been a symbol of protection or power.
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Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Necropolis of Ispiluncas. 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.
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Necropolis of Istevéne, about halfway. Next is Su Nuraxi di Barumini.
Nobody quite knew what lay under the mound outside Barumini until the 1950s, when the archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu, himself a native of the village, began to dig. What emerged was the most complete nuragic complex on Sardinia: a central stone tower built in the Bronze Age, later surrounded by a bastion with four corner towers and an outer wall, and beyond that the remains of a village of round huts. Su Nuraxi was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1997, and it remains the best place on the island to understand the nuragic civilisation, which left thousands of these towers across Sardinia.
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Su Nuraxi di Barumini sits at 207 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Istevéne.
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back through Necropolis of Istevéne comes up about 354 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Necropolis of Ispiluncas.
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about 404 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Necropolis of Ispiluncas. Next is back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
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back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu, late in the day. Next is Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes.
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The route ends here after 505 km.
Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes → Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → Necropolis of Ispiluncas is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Ispiluncas → Necropolis of Istevéne is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Istevéne → Su Nuraxi di Barumini is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Su Nuraxi di Barumini → back through Necropolis of Istevéne is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Necropolis of Istevéne → back through Necropolis of Ispiluncas is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Ispiluncas → back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.