The houses of the fairies are still wrapped in mystery

The domus de janas (literally “the houses of the fairies”) attract many visitors from all around the world. They are collective hypogean tombs, dug into the rock by the peoples who inhabited Sardinia from the VII millennium B.C., in the pre-nuraghic age. Usually the tombs have an antechamber and a room on which look other smaller rooms, where the dead were placed.

Some domus de janas have preserved, partially intact, the wall-paintings or the reliefs and the engravings representing the symbols of the divinities or spiral patterns: these last ones are common to other cultures, as for example to that of the Celtic populations.

The famous Roccia dell’Elefante (the Elefant's rock) in the territory of Castelsardo (Anglona), shows a domus de janas obtained inside a trachyte block: it is one of the natural sites used by the populations of the area between 1400 and the 600 B.C.

In the same area, the concentration of domus de janas of Su Murrone, in Chiaramonti, it is one of the most interesting archaeological sites.

The domus de janas Sa Rocca (Sedini) was dug in a calcareous rock, but during the following ages it has been a perfect home for the shepherds of the zone.