Fonte Sacra Su Tempiesu

Magical Spot

We visited Orune for the last weekend of Autunno in Barbagia and couldn’t skip the opportunity to see this ancient and mystical temple. The grounds are beautiful and well curated while maintaining the...

Atmospheric, ancient well from (1000-400 BC)

This must be the finest prehistoric sacred well or spring in the whole of Sardinia. It is reached by a steep path, well signed and with many short sets of stairs, over 800 m long. You get to see a b...

Just an hour out of Nuoro and well worth it

This may have been the biggest and most pleasant surprise of our week around Nuoro. In every way, it was a thoroughly worthwhile visit. The drive itself is spectacular, up a hairpinned route to the vi...

A Fascinating Drive to a Sacred Water Temple

This fountain was found in 1953 by a farmer who was working his land, he discovered just the top peak of the fountain and then called in recruits to help excavate the remaining temple. The personn...

Worth the trip through isolated land.

You don't happen to stumble upon Su Tempiesu, you get there through a tortuous, winding road, across a landscape that when I did the trip, two days ago, was a palette of yellow and brown, deserted, on...