Stonehenge? Not at all, it’s Pranu Mutteddu archaeological park!

Looking at the pictures above and below you would think of being in Stonehenge or in one of the megalithic monuments sites in France but, instead...surprise! We are in the South of Sardinia, near Cagliari, in the locality known as “Pranu Mutteddu” close to the small village of Goni.
The archaeological Megalithic Park of Pranu Mutteddu, is the place which can praises the highest concentration of menhirs of the whole island, more than 60 megaliths and, because of that, is one of the most representative sites of sardinian prehistory.
The area of the park covers 200 thousand square meters and praises the highest concentration of standing stones on the island and many different types of burials of the latest Neolithic.

The number of menhirs, about 60, are proto- anthropomorphic kind, distributed or arranged in long arrays individually or in groups, often located near tombs. The most important lineup is composed by 20 elements.

The tombs are mainly circle shaped made with a series of circles of stones stuck into the ground and with a sepolclare sub- rectangular shape cell at the center. Some of them are composed by circular room and a corridor made with stone rows ,embedded in the ground and topped by slabs, covered, a long time ago, by a ground mound.

The extreme accuracy and the monumental nature of some of the park tombs, brings to assume the use of the site for important sepulchral functions and religious rites and, perhaps a sacred temple for the worship of ancestors.

The archaeological park visitors, not so many yet, report the feeling of a particular atmosphere of calm and relaxation and the flowing of a positive energy, typical of all the places chosen by the ancients for their sacred settlements.