Why this ride
From Bonorva it runs 112 km to Bonorva; allow about 2 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: Petroglyph Park-a, Necropolis of Puttu Codinu and back through Petroglyph Park-a. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu and Necropolis of Puttu Codinu
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 112 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 34
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is where the day begins. Next is Petroglyph Park-a.
2. Petroglyph Park-a
The north-west of Sardinia is a country of low volcanic hills, pasture, cork oak and stone, and the villages of the Logudoro are small, quiet and far older than they look. This area, around Cheremule and Giave, is dotted with traces of a world that predates the Romans by a very long time. The island's prehistoric people carved tombs into soft rock, the domus de janas, which translates as fairy houses, and built round stone towers called nuraghi, of which there are thousands.
Read the complete Petroglyph Park-a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Petroglyph Park-a comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Necropolis of Puttu Codinu.
3. 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.
Read the complete Necropolis of Puttu Codinu write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Necropolis of Puttu Codinu. Next is back through Petroglyph Park-a.
4. back through Petroglyph Park-a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Petroglyph Park-a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Petroglyph Park-a, late in the day. Next is Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
5. Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu to Petroglyph Park-a
Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → Petroglyph Park-a is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petroglyph Park-a to Necropolis of Puttu Codinu
Petroglyph Park-a → Necropolis of Puttu Codinu is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Puttu Codinu to back through Petroglyph Park-a
Necropolis of Puttu Codinu → back through Petroglyph Park-a is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Petroglyph Park-a to Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu
back through Petroglyph Park-a → Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.