Barumini
This town is known all over the world thanks to the fame of the archaeological site of Su Nuraxi that, since 1997, it belongs to the list of the World Heritage of the Unesco. Uncovered in 1951 by the professor Giovanni Lilliu, a Sardinian archaeologist of international renown and a Member of the Academy of the Lincei, is made of a nuragh with a complex structure built in five different phasis with four angular towers connected by a curtain wall around the main tower, erected in 1470 B.C., and from the rests of a big village. In the central courtyard there is a pit which draws the water at a depth of twenty meters which is: still fed today by a rich water table. In the middle of a the building lays a seat in stone which scholars think it could have been the ancients meeting place where to talk about politics and religion.
The town offers other reasons of interest: the church of San Giovanni Battista (XIII century), the parochial of Beata Vergine Immacolata (XVI century) and the Zapata palace, belonged to the family of the marquises to which the Spanish king Carlo V gave the town as feud in the first half of the 1500's. Annexed to the palace there is the nuraghic complex called Nuraxi ‘e Cresia, as not far from there is set the church of the Beata Vergine Immacolata. The Zapata family financed the construction of the church of San Francesco and the Monastery of the Capuchins: both are worth a visit.
