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Nuraghe Losa

Italy · 14th century BC

Founded
c. 1350 BC
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Abbasanta
Visitors
≈22,000 (2022)
Coordinates
40.11626°, 8.7929°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Nuraghe Losa in Italy
Photo: Jack Aubrey~commonswiki · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The nuraghe Losa (in Sardinia, close to the village of Abbasanta) is a complex prehistoric building in the shape of a tholos tomb. Its central structure has a triangular shape.

On the west side, a turreted wall is linked to it. The whole built complex is surrounded by a wider wall, which encloses the settlement of the original village of huts and other additional buildings constructed in the late Punic, imperial Roman, late Roman and high Middle Ages periods. The central tower was built in the 14th century BC, while the surrounding walls and towers were built in the 13th century BC.

Text adapted from “Nuraghe Losa” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Nuraghe Losa ranks #3,864 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #293 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1350 BC, it is older than 99% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 6 atlas entries founded in the 14th century BC. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,147 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 22,000 visitors in 2022. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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