Abbasanta (OR)

On the Abbasanta plateau, the imposing Nuraghe Losa is a reference complex for the study of Nuragic architecture and the organisation of settlements in protohistoric Sardinia.

The complex stands in the centre of the basaltic plateau of Abbasanta, an area of central Sardinia rich in protohistoric evidence.

Inhabited for over a millennium, the Nuraghe Losa settlement developed around the nuraghe of the same name. Its oldest core dates to between the 19th and 14th centuries BC, but the whole settlement developed in several phases, eventually including the village, defensive structures and the reinforcement of the nuraghe.

Today the monumental core preserves much of its architecture. The keep, the three towers, long stretches of the curtain walls and the spatial relationship with the outer wall and the village are still recognisable.

The complex includes the imposing three-lobed nuraghe, around which a village developed: an articulated system of spaces inhabited for over a millennium and reused over the centuries for different purposes.

Nuraghe Losa stands on the basaltic plateau of Abbasanta, an area of central Sardinia rich in protohistoric evidence. The village extended over about three and a half hectares; only part of the settlement has been excavated so far.