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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A 530 km round trip from Putifigari - roughly 8 h 33 in the saddle. On the way it passes Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos, Su Nuraxi di Barumini and back through Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sardinia is covered in small rock-cut tombs called domus de janas, the houses of the fairies, or of the witches depending on who tells the story. They were carved into soft rock by the island's Neolithic and Copper Age communities, more than five thousand years ago, and there are thousands of them, from single chambers to complex underground houses for the dead. The necropolis of Monte Siseri, near the village of Putifigari in the hills behind Alghero, includes the tomb known as S'Incantu, the enchantment, one of the most elaborate on the island. Its chambers imitate the interior of a house, with carved details such as roof beams, pillars and doorways, and traces of red and black paint that once decorated the walls. The domus de janas have recently joined the UNESCO World Heritage list, a long-overdue recognition of Sardinian prehistory.
Read the complete Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu write-up.
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Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu is where the day begins. 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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Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Su Nuraxi di Barumini write-up.
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about 267 km into the recorded legs you reach Su Nuraxi di Barumini. Next is back through Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos write-up.
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back through Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos, late in the day. Next is Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu. That is the ride.
Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu → Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos → Su Nuraxi di Barumini is 173 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Su Nuraxi di Barumini → back through Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos is 174 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos → Necropolis of Monte Siseri/S'Incantu is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.