Qualla: Nuraghe Seruci https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/v/z/nuraghe-seruci-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nuraghe Seruci https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci Nuraghe Seruci: Introduction https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci/ Photo credit Wikibiro, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the hilltop where the nuraghe stands, you can see the sea. That was the point. Sometime during the Bronze Age -- roughly 1500 to 800 BC -- the people who built the Nuraghe Seruci chose this spot in southwestern Sardinia for its commanding view of the surrounding coast and countryside. They raised a central stone tower, then surrounded it with five or six additional towers linked by a defensive wall. Around this fortress, they built a village of approximately one hundred circular stone huts, making Seruci one of the largest Nuragic settlements on the island.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/v/z/nuraghe-seruci-wp/snvz-nuraghe-seruci-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nuraghe Seruci: Towers of Stone https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci/ Photo credit Xoil at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The nuraghe is classified as a 'complex' type -- the most architecturally ambitious category of these uniquely Sardinian structures. A central tower, its upper levels now collapsed, once rose high enough to survey the entire coastal plain and the Mediterranean beyond. Around it, ...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/v/z/nuraghe-seruci-wp/snvz-nuraghe-seruci-towers-of-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full Nuraghe Seruci: A Village of Innovation https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci/ Photo credit Antonio Taramelli, Public domain. The settlement sprawls across six hectares, organized into six distinct 'residential areas' separated by narrow streets -- a level of urban planning that challenges assumptions about Bronze Age communities. The huts are circular, built from the same local stone as the nuraghe, bu...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/v/z/nuraghe-seruci-wp/snvz-nuraghe-seruci-a-village-of-innovation.mp3 0:06 3 full Nuraghe Seruci: The Giants' Tomb https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci/ Photo credit Antonio Taramelli, Public domain. On a nearby hill, a giants' tomb completes the picture of Nuragic life and death at Seruci. These distinctive burial monuments -- long stone chambers covered by earth, with a curved forecourt formed by tall upright slabs -- are the characteristic funerary architecture of Bronze A...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/v/z/nuraghe-seruci-wp/snvz-nuraghe-seruci-the-giants-tomb.mp3 0:06 4 full Nuraghe Seruci: Rediscovery in the Iglesiente https://qualla.com/nuraghe-seruci/ Photo credit Xoil at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The nuraghe sits in the municipality of Gonnesa, in the Iglesiente region of southwestern Sardinia -- an area better known today for its mining heritage than its prehistory. Italian archaeologist Antonio Taramelli first investigated the site in 1917, describing it as a 'Nuragic c...

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