Attractions and Places To See around Osidde/Osidda - Top 9

This beautiful nuraghe is located in a suggestive position: on top of a hill, surrounded by cork trees, holm oaks and Mediterranean scrub. It can be seen from the street and can be accessed for free.

This small town in northern Sardinia is known above all for the production of switchblade knives, composed of a steel blade and mouflon horn handle. The municipality is also among the highest in the area, as it is located at an altitude of 900 meters above sea level.

The Nuraghe Loelle, hidden among cork oaks and holm oaks, gradually reveals its fascinating and mysterious characteristics, perched on a granite outcrop, the main rock of the region, and dominating the plateau and the houses of Buddusò. Its structure consists of a central tower leaning on a trefoil bastion and is considered a “mixed” type as it has features of both a “corridor” and a tholos nuraghe. In fact, it is believed to be a protonuraghe, rebuilt in later phases to meet new architectural and cultural needs. All around you will notice the traces of the hut village with a circular floor plan. Upon entering, you will be surprised that the entrance does not open onto a courtyard or a corridor leading to a central room, as was common in these Bronze Age buildings. In the Loelle, however, a staircase leads clockwise around the tower and directly to the second level. Here begins another corridor, which, if you walk all the way through it, leads to the "ground floor", while about halfway there is another ramp that leads to the third level, where the final and main room opens. Before you enter the room, you will notice an apse-shaped niche on the right. In front of the keep, a bastion crossed by corridors was built with circular walls that have a concave-convex line. Outside the bastion, on the east side, there is another special feature of the Loelle: by exploiting a natural gorge, a separate room was created with a tholos vault that opens about one meter below the surface of the earth. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/explore/nuraghe-loelle

The Romanzesu village shrine stands on a plateau in a forest. It is part of the Bitti area, 13 kilometers away, and covers an area of seven hectares. Entirely made of granite, it includes about a hundred huts, many of which are hidden by the trees, and various cult buildings: a chess temple with a stepped amphitheater, two with a megaron, a rectangular one, a heron and a mysterious labyrinth. The name of the place goes back to the Roman settlement from the 2nd-3rd centuries. Century AD. The first information about this site dates back to 1919: it was discovered by archaeologist Antonio Taramelli. Seven excavations at the end of the 20th century uncovered fragments of ceramics, bronze and lead. The monumental centerpiece is the Chess Temple (13th-14th century BC), spring water bubbles out of its cracks. It has an entrance staircase, a room with a floor and a counter on the wall. It is connected by a corridor over 40 meters long to a circular paved tank, a ceremonial basin where water was collected. Around it are six wide steps of an amphitheater in which one can imagine the village population crowding together and taking part in the collective rituals of the water cult: ablutions and politico-religious ceremonies, including trials through ordeals (requests for divine intervention in order ). to judge crimes). In addition, three granite baetyluses were found, symbolizing divinity. Near a Megaron temple you will notice an oval enclosure surrounded by a series of concentric spiral walls, leading via a labyrinthine path to a central room: here a pedestal supported a cult object. The labyrinth, perhaps the magic priest's hut, dates from the 13th-14th centuries. century B.C. BC, while the village dates from an earlier period: the pottery found in the huts dates back to the 16th century BC. BC, i.e. from the beginning of spring, was only used to supply water. The huts are round, have a paved floor and seating around the fire pit. Some are very spacious, with niches and internal partitions, and one even has three rooms opening onto a shared courtyard. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/explore/romanzesu Further information can be found here: https://www.romanzesu.sardegna.it/

Main center of northern Barbagia, Bitti is an ancient stone village famous for the Tenori di Bitti, a Sardinian polyphonic chant included in the intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco. A point of reference for the production of cheeses, it is possible to visit the museum of peasant and pastoral culture.

The village-sanctuary of Romanzesu is located on a plateau in northern Barbagia, immersed in a landscape of cork oaks and granite outcrops. Testimony of Nuragic civilization dating back to the XIII-IX century BC. it is worth taking a walk immersed in silence.