SU NURAXI BARUMINI Unesco World Heritage Site

Overview

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Italian

Mobile ticket

Visit Su Nuraxi in Barumini: the most famous "nuraghe" of the island, made up of several stone towers interconnected that form a special type of defensive structure dates back 3500 years. Explore the Nuragic village, where you will find different kind of huts, ancient grain mills, ovens, water tanks, spa environment. Enjoy the beautiful landscape that surrounds the archaeological complex, that ranges from winding and fertile hills to lush highland home to a unique little horse breed named “Cavallini della Giara”.

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Local, professional and friendly tourist guide

The tour includes walking trails on uneven ground, narrow corridors, inclined floors and stairs. It is compulsory to wear comfortable and closed shoes.

Tour not suitable for wheelchair users or people with limited mobility

A minimum of 2 people per booking is required

Maximum 7 people per group

Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults

Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

At time of booking, customers must provide the details of the hotel where they are staying. Cruise ship passengers must provide the ship name.

May be operated by a multi-lingual guide

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

Driver guide

Small group tour

Hotel/port pickup and drop-off from Cagliari.

Air-conditioned vehicle

Live commentary on board

Transport by private air-conditioned 9 seater van

Entrance fees to Su Nuraxi (€ 16 per person)

Pick-up/drop-off from holiday resort outside Cagliari (in Villasimius, Costa Rei, Pula, Chia) € 150

Gratuities

Cheese tasting € 42 per person (tour option "SU NURAXI AND RURAL MINI-DAIRY")

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

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What To Expect

Su Nuraxi

Your private tourist guide will pick you up at the scheduled time by his comfortable minivan. During the 45 minutes route to Barumini, it will be tell you about the main features of the island and the landscape we will see from the car's windows. Once arrived, we will visit the imposing nuraghe "Su Nuraxi" and its village: an Archaeological complex whose most ancient traces are date back to around the 1500 b.c. We will begin from the village, where you will see various types of housing structures, the round ones, with a central courtyard, that go back to the nuragic period, and the rectangular ones, that belong to the punic-roman period. Noteworthy are a central court house with a spa environment perhaps home to a domestic cult, and the big meeting hut. Then, we will enter the real nuraghe, that can be reached by an iron ladder which leads to a tiny entry, placed at 7 metres of height. There we will visit the central tower, called “mastio”, that originally measured 20 metres in height, and the 4 side towers. The whole of the 5 towers makes a housing complex that, for its grandeur, reminds us of a medieval castle. After the visit to su Nuraxi, you will be taken to the place where your excursion began. The tour can also be enriched by choosing one of the different available options.

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Not Included

Options

Su Nuraxi and Giara's Horses

Visit to Su Nuraxi and to the Giara plateau home of little horses. Duration: 5 hours.
Pickup included

SU NURAXI AND RURAL MINI-DAIRY

Visit to the mini-dairy Sinnos
Duration: 6 hours
Su Nuraxi and rural mini-dairy
Pickup included

Su Nuraxi and Palazzo Zapata

Visit to Su Nuraxi and to the XVII century's palace once home of the local lord Zapata. Duration: 4 hours.
Duration: 4 hours
Pickup included