Nuraghe Loelle

About the museum

The Loelle nuraghe stands on a granite outcrop of the Buddusò plateau, on Monte Acuto, along the road linking Buddusò and Bitti, among cork oaks and holm oaks. It is a monument of mixed type, with features of both corridor nuraghi and tholos nuraghi, and is thought to be a proto-nuraghe reworked in several phases. The central tower has a trilobed bastion built against it, and around it the circular huts of the village can be seen.

The entrance does not lead to a courtyard or a central hall: a staircase winds clockwise around the tower up to the second level, and a ramp climbs to the third, where the main chamber is. On the eastern side, a room with a tholos roof was built into a natural cavity, sunk about one metre below the ground surface.

A short distance away there is a giants' tomb, whose corridor courses and traces of the exedra can still be recognised, a second tomb and a small dolmen hidden among the oaks. Further on, on the road towards Buddusò, lies the necropolis of Ludurru, of the late Neolithic period, with six tombs cut into the rock.

Highlights

• Mixed-type nuraghe with a trilobed bastion
• Spiral staircase around the tower and chamber on the third level
• Village of circular huts
• Giants' tomb and dolmen nearby
• Ludurru necropolis with six rock-cut tombs

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Getting there & parking

From Nuoro take the SS 389 towards Bitti and continue towards Buddusò: about 10 km before Buddusò the nuraghe is visible on the right-hand side, about 50 m from the road.

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