Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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talian. Very few of the antiquities of Sardinia date from the periods ofthe Carthaginian and Roman supremacy. The mediaeval ruins alsoare mainly confined to the conspicuous watch-towers of the Pisanson the coast and a few of their churches and fortifications. Theprehistoric monuments, however, show that the island then enjoyeda greater relative importance than it ever afterwards attained. Thechief of these are the so-called Nuraghi (perhaps a dialectic foim ofmuragUe), the number of which La Marmora (p. 424) estimates at3000. Tbey are conical monuments with truncated summits, 30-60 ft.in height, 35-100 ft. in diameter at the base, constructed sometimesof hewn, and sometimes of unhewn blocks of stone without mortar.The walls are 13-23 ft. in thickness. A low entrance gives on a corri-dor leading to an ova! chamber, ca. 16 ft. in diameter and 20-23 ft.in height, with a vaulted roof formed by layers of masonry projectingone beyond the other. From the corridor a spiral staircase generally
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