Tomba dei giganti di Moru

About the museum

The Tomba dei giganti di Moru (giants’ tomb) is located in Arzachena, on the western edge of the plain, about two hundred metres from the Albucciu nuraghe, with which it was linked as a burial area. It is a collective burial built in two phases: a more ancient funerary gallery of the Middle Bronze Age (around the 18th–16th centuries BC) was later extended in the Late Bronze Age with the exedra, the space in front of the tomb reserved for rituals, and the earth-and-stone mound enclosing the long corridor.

Unlike the nearby tombs of Li Lolghi and Coddu Vecchiu, here the facade is almost straight and the exedra was not built of wide upright slabs with a large stele: it was probably built of roughly hewn blocks and a central stele. The corridor, about nine metres long, still preserves one of the slabs that covered it; the dead were placed in it from above.

The materials found in the exedra and the corridor span a long period: small bowls, shallow dishes and miniature vessels, a cup, a dagger and an amber vessel. In the Punic age (around 300–264 BC) the place continued to be frequented, as shown by a stele with a Punic sign and a coin with the head of Tanit. The tomb is part of the Parco Archeologico di Arzachena, managed by the municipal company Ge.Se.Co.

Highlights

• The only giants’ tomb in Arzachena with an almost straight facade
• Bronze Age funerary gallery with an original cover slab
• Near the Albucciu nuraghe, of which it was the burial area
• Traces of Punic use, with a coin of Tanit

Permanent exhibition

• Tomba dei giganti di Moru – Visit to the funerary gallery with its exedra, in the Parco Archeologico di Arzachena.

Operated by

Ge.Se.Co. Arzachena S.U.R.L. (Parco Archeologico di Arzachena)

Visitors per year

approx. 23,000

Admission & discounts

The combined ticket is valid for the monuments of the Parco Archeologico di Arzachena; for groups of more than 20 people there are reduced rates (1 monument €3, 2 monuments €6). Schools: free for residents, €1 for non-residents.

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The tomb is on the SS 125 Olbia–Palau road, at the edge of Arzachena, in the locality of Malchittu; the Albucciu nuraghe is about 200 m away and the Malchittu temple about 1.5 km. The car park is about 215 m on foot from the entrance.

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