Attractions and Places To See around Goni - Top 19

It is one of the most famous, interesting, and intact of the approximately thirty Nuragic well-temples where the water cult was practiced: the name "covered well" itself expresses its function and excellent state of preservation. Three kilometers from Ballao, a town in the historic region of Gerrei – along Provincial Road 13, which leads from the town to Escalaplano – lies the sacred well of Funtana Coberta, nestled in a green valley floor, enclosed to the east by a small hill. The entire building, ten and a half meters long, was constructed from irregular, roughly hewn limestone blocks of uniform thickness, carved on the exposed side. The floor plan is unusual: two wings of different lengths create an atrium whose original flooring is still visible. As is common with sacred wells, the monument is divided into three parts: on the surface, the small outdoor atrium (or vestibule), rectangular and almost two meters wide; an access staircase with twelve narrow steps, well crafted and covered with a stepped ceiling composed of twelve sloping architraves that fit into the walls and echo the shape of the underlying steps leading down to the floor of the tholos chamber; more precisely, the tholos chamber was built in the shape of a small nuragic: it is a semi-subterranean chamber with an almost circular plan, three and a half meters wide at the bottom and covered by a false dome five and a half meters high. Noteworthy is the construction of the dome, surrounded by a drum wall, to which a projecting body is attached that delimits the access staircase and the two wings of the atrium in antis. Also noteworthy is the slight curvature of the walls, almost as if to 'invite' the faithful into the interior of the temple. The floor is made of limestone slabs carefully arranged in a radial pattern. Here is the well shaft, dug into the rock, five meters deep, and covered with 36 rows of stones, with an average opening of one meter wide, from which the water spring flows. Source and further information: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/funtana-coberta

A very large and striking radio telescope!

Here are many remains of masonry

Of the three present in Italy, the SRT is the most advanced and modern. It mainly carries out research in the scientific field, and to a lesser extent control tasks for space exploration and artificial satellite missions around the Earth.

Silius has an ancient mining history, with its mines in the Genna Tres Montis area from which fluorite, barite and quartz were extracted

Remains of wall structures that enclose rooms and ducts of what was once the San Basilio spa complex. The tanks and cisterns that were part of the hydraulic operating system are still visible, which exploited the slope of the level curves to convey the water and channel it into the cisterns and from these into the tanks. The Romanesque church of San Basilio, dating back to around the 12th century, is also located in front.

Nice artificial lake dating back to the 1950s. It is located not far from Sanluri, about 40km and is generated by the dam of the Rio Mulargia.

Lake created in the 50s which draws mainly from the Fiumendosa. Of fundamental importance to ensure water in Cagliari and neighboring cities. It is possible to make excursions by boat with scheduled departures from both Siurgus Donigala and Orroli