Attractions and Places To See around Turalva/Torralba - Top 20

A place of great historical value. Well worth a visit!

One of the most beautiful nuraghi on the island.

According to some sources, the town of Thiesi was founded by Jews deported by the Romans. Today cheese production is the main activity and is home to large dairy industries. The most important historical buildings found there are the seventeenth-century church of Sant'Antonio and the parish church of Santa Vittoria, a beautiful Gothic-Aragonese building built between 1400 and 1590, with Renaissance interior decoration and portal.

The church was first built in the 15th century and then rebuilt in 1600. The majestic bell tower was built two centuries later and, at 46 meters high, is considered the tallest in Sardinia.

Church of Santa Cateria famous for its majestic 46-metre high neoclassical bell tower designed by the architect Salvatore Calvia Unali. It is the tallest bell tower in Sardinia!

The nuraghe of the monumental complex of Santu Antine di Torralba (15th century BC), cornerstone of the entire settlement system of the Valle dei Nuraghi, represents the synthesis and culmination of the architecture of the Nuragic period. At the foot of the nuraghe lies the nuragic village, only partially brought to light by the excavations. The huts were built in Roman times as early as the 2nd century BC. and after a short period of neglect (middle of the 1st century BC) a rustic villa was built on the southern village structures. The virtual reconstruction of the Nuraghe Santu Antine represents an equilateral triangle centered on the central tower – or mastio – whose original height exceeded 25 meters. At the corners are three side towers that are almost identically spaced from each other, about 42 meters. The exterior brickwork follows a curvilinear pattern, with rows arranged in horizontal courses. Inside, there are long corridors, simple and spiral staircases to reach the upper rooms, silos for storing food, and a fountain system. The constant regularity of dimensions and symmetries suggest a unified project in which the desire to create large voids within the walls is clearly felt. The main entrance overlooks the courtyard in which stands the mastio, of which only the first and second chambers are complete; On the wall there are 7 monumental entrances, arranged symmetrically, from which you can reach the different rooms also on the first and second floor. At the two ends of the courtyard are the entrances to the west and east towers: in each of these chambers another passageway connects them to the north tower through monumental corridors. From the ground floor of the mastio, going up the spiral staircase, you reach the room on the first floor, which, like the lower one, has a tholos roof. The geometric lines of the planimetric scheme of the basement are also proposed on the upper floor: only the central tower had an additional level, now reduced to a few lines. Source: https://www.nuraghesantuantine.it/nuraghe.html

Standing on a rocky ridge of Meilogu, Rebeccu dominates the plain of Santa Lucia, six kilometers from Bonorva, isolated and populated only by the legends that made it famous. Rebeccu is a medieval village with a prestigious past, almost uninhabited today, once the capital of the Curatoria of Costavalle and a strategic point on the border between the Giudicati of Arborea and Torres. A few stone houses, some restored, a small church and a desecrated graveyard make it both unsettling and evocative, especially in light of the stories surrounding it. The most famous concerns King Beccu, feudal lord of the village, and his daughter, Princess Donoria: believed to be a witch who was expelled from the village while her house was being destroyed by fire. Leaving it tied to a mule, he unleashed the “curse of the thirty houses”: Rebeccu would never have had more than thirty houses. According to some versions, even the father started his anathema, poisoning the numerous water sources in the area. During the Judgment period, the center had 400 inhabitants, then it began to depopulate from the 15th century. According to legend, the survivors of the curse founded Bonorva, while some of them, the boldest, tried to rebuild the village, being careful not to exceed thirty houses. However, history says that a Catalan detachment, arriving from Alghero in 1353, exterminated the population and burned the village, only to provoke the reaction of the Arborea Judicate. A few decades later, a peace treaty was signed between Eleonora d'Arborea and the King of Aragon in the church of Rebeccu. The importance that the center had in the Middle Ages has also given rise to another legend: it is here, in a castle that has now disappeared, that the marriage between the judge and Brancaleone Doria was said to have taken place. Between the cobbled streets and the houses, you will walk in absolute silence, breathing in a constantly evocative and mysterious atmosphere. It's no coincidence that the village has become a backdrop for movies and photo sets, and has hosted a film festival for decades. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/rebeccu

The monument, a small cult spring from the Nuragic period, consists of an atrium and a small cell where the vein of the spring is collected. The paved rectangular atrium (5.15 x 1.80 m) has seating along the walls (height 0.30 m; width 0.40 m) and a small alcove. The masonry (height 2 m; width 3 m) consists of regular rows of carefully squared basalt blocks. From the atrium one enters the small cell through an entrance with a trapezoidal light (0.65 m wide; 0.64 m high) obtained in a monolithic slab. The small room (diameter 0.97 m; height 1.60 m), built of roughly worked but carefully joined blocks of basalt, has a "tholos" roof closed by a large horizontal slab. In Christian times, a Latin cross was engraved on the underside of the end plate. The water flows through a channel carved into the sill of the entrance to the spring to a drainage channel built under the floor of the atrium itself. The settlement of the place lasted until late antiquity, as evidenced by coins from the fourth century. AD Found in the time of Taramelli while clearing the porch. Source: http://www.sardegnacultura.it/j/v/253?v=2&c=2488&t=1&s=21393