Arzachena (SS)

Coddu Ecchju bears witness to the evolution of funerary architecture through the Bronze Age: from a dolmen corridor tomb (allée couverte) it was transformed, in the Middle Bronze Age, into a giants' tomb, still well preserved today. It stands in northern Sardinia, in Gallura, at Arzachena, on a granite hilly terrain.

Coddu Ecchju bears witness to the evolution of funerary architecture through the Bronze Age: from a dolmen corridor tomb (allée couverte) it was transformed, in the Middle Bronze Age, into a giants' tomb, still well preserved today. It stands in northern Sardinia, in Gallura, at Arzachena, on a granite hilly terrain.

The great arched stele about four metres high, the exedra and the orthostats characterise the giants' tomb. The ceramic and metal finds document its architectural transformation and long continuity of use.

In the Arzachena area, the La Prisgiona settlement and the Albucciu nuraghe tell of Nuragic Gallura: a system of villages, exchanges and control of the territory among granite outcrops and fertile plains.