Cabu Abbas: fonte dello stratificato paesaggio millenario del Nuraghe Santu Antine e della Valle dei Nuraghi

Silvia Orione;Marco Cadinu

2024-01-01

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Abstract

The present paper stems from the need to study the landscape of the “Nuraghi Valley” of Torralba as it relates to the rural church of Our Lady of Cabu Abbas and the Nuraghe of Santu Antine. The church, which is of considerable interest because of its Romanesque features, is of further importance due to its surrounding landscape context. The toponym Cabu Abbas has been passed down in a series of natural and architectural landmarks located in this area of the Meilogu such as a spring, a waterway, a valley, a dolmen, a nuraghe, an ancient rural settlement and a Roma- nesque church. The contemporary landscape of the area reflects the continued or shared environmental invariants between the Nuragic civilization and the medieval period, resulting in a stratified rural landscape emblematic for the region of Sardinia. The site under analysis thus preserves visible traces of a land use that conceived the settlement primarily in accordance with water, agricultural and mining resources, periodically transforming the landscape.