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 219 km round trip from Cheremule - roughly 4 h 06 in the saddle. On the way it passes Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes, Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju, Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu and back through Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Petroglyph Park-b is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes.
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 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju.
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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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju. Next is Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu.
Sardinians call them domus de janas, houses of the fairies, and when you crouch at the entrance of one you understand the name. They are tombs cut straight into the soft limestone by the island's Neolithic and Copper Age people, small chambers linked by low doorways, sometimes with carved false doors or bull horns on the walls. The necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu, just inland from Porto Torres, holds a couple of dozen of them scattered across a low rocky plateau among fields and scrub, one of the largest groups in the north of the island.
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Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju.
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back through Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes.
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back through Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes comes up about 185 km into the recorded legs. Next is Petroglyph Park-b.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Petroglyph Park-b closes the day.
Petroglyph Park-b → Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes → Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju → Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Su Crucifissu Mannu → back through Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju → back through Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Mesu ‘e Montes → Petroglyph Park-b is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.