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Quartucciu, a town situated six km far from Cagliari, has ancient origins and shows traces of occupation starting from the Nuragic age, the period to which the giants’ tomb of Is Concias known as “Sa Domu ‘e s’Orcu” dates back.
The tomb, one of the best preserved on the island, is located inside Sette Fratelli park, a naturalistic jewel of southern Sardinia.
The façade, a classic semicircular exedra, has several rows of stones: in the center there is a trapezoidal entrance. The jambs are two blocks surmounted by an architrave. The rectangular funerary corridor has a counter at the back, which occupies the entire width of the room. The floor is characterized by the natural flattened rock surface.
In front of the entrance, during the archaeological excavations of the site, a granite betyl was found: today it has been positioned to the side of the entrance, on the left. Near the exedra, however, they found three holes, carved into the rock and delimited by stone circles of different sizes, overlapping and concentric.
In the hamlet of Sant’Isidoro there is the Nanni Arrù complex nuraghe, frequented between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
Finally, the necropolis in Pill’e Matta area dates back to the Punic-Roman era: it consists of 200 tombs and was used since the 4th century BC. From the necropolis come several thousand finds, which constituted the funerary objects of the deceased.
