Why this ride
A 195 km round trip from Ozieri - roughly 4 h 55 in the saddle. It goes by way of Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu, Petroglyph Park-a, Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga and Petroglyph Park-b.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos and Petroglyph Park-b
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 195 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 55
- 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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
2. 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 comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Petroglyph Park-a.
3. 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
about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Petroglyph Park-a. Next is Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga.
4. Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga
Bonorva sits on the edge of a high plateau in central-northern Sardinia, a town of grey stone looking out over the plain of Santa Lucia. Around it, the land is dotted with prehistoric remains, and the necropolis of Sa Pala Larga is one of several groups of domus de janas cut into the rock in this area. The rock-cut tombs are older than the nuraghi, and many have intricate interiors.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga, about halfway. Next is Petroglyph Park-b.
5. Petroglyph Park-b
The Logudoro in northern Sardinia is a high, rolling country of basalt plateaus and the worn cones of extinct volcanoes, where cork oaks and wild olives stand in dry pasture and every second hill seems to have a ruined nuraghe on it. Petroglyph Park-b lies near the small villages of Cheremule, Giave and Torralba, in an area where the rock itself was used as an archive, carved into tombs and marked with symbols by people who lived here thousands of years before Rome.
Read the complete Petroglyph Park-b write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Petroglyph Park-b sits at 72 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga.
6. back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga comes up about 117 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Petroglyph Park-a.
7. 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
about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Petroglyph Park-a. Next is back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu.
8. back through 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 through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu, late in the day. Next is Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos.
9. Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 195 km.
Leg by leg
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos to Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu
Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos → Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 Sa Pala Larga
Petroglyph Park-a → Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga to Petroglyph Park-b
Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga → Petroglyph Park-b is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Petroglyph Park-b to back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga
Petroglyph Park-b → back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga to back through Petroglyph Park-a
back through Necropolis of Sa Pala Larga → back through Petroglyph Park-a is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Petroglyph Park-a to back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu
back through Petroglyph Park-a → back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu to Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos
back through Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu → Necropolis of Sos Furrighesos is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.