The best walks and hikes around Bitzi/Bitti

This beautiful nuraghe is located in a suggestive position: on top of a hill, surrounded by cork trees, holm oaks and Mediterranean scrub. It can be seen from the street and can be accessed for free.

When I arrive in Torpè where I have to turn to find the Torpè lake

There is an incredibly impressive, gnarled hundred-year-old oak tree here.

Hidden in the forest and accessible via a small trail, you will find the remains of Giant's Grave 1 here.

There is a nice rest area here.

This beautiful rest area is a little off the road.

The Nuraghe Loelle, hidden among cork oaks and holm oaks, gradually reveals its fascinating and mysterious characteristics, perched on a granite outcrop, the main rock of the region, and dominating the plateau and the houses of Buddusò. Its structure consists of a central tower leaning on a trefoil bastion and is considered a “mixed” type as it has features of both a “corridor” and a tholos nuraghe. In fact, it is believed to be a protonuraghe, rebuilt in later phases to meet new architectural and cultural needs. All around you will notice the traces of the hut village with a circular floor plan. Upon entering, you will be surprised that the entrance does not open onto a courtyard or a corridor leading to a central room, as was common in these Bronze Age buildings. In the Loelle, however, a staircase leads clockwise around the tower and directly to the second level. Here begins another corridor, which, if you walk all the way through it, leads to the "ground floor", while about halfway there is another ramp that leads to the third level, where the final and main room opens. Before you enter the room, you will notice an apse-shaped niche on the right. In front of the keep, a bastion crossed by corridors was built with circular walls that have a concave-convex line. Outside the bastion, on the east side, there is another special feature of the Loelle: by exploiting a natural gorge, a separate room was created with a tholos vault that opens about one meter below the surface of the earth. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/explore/nuraghe-loelle

One of the most important and complete testimonies that the Nuragic culture has left us. Su Tempiesu is a fountain temple dedicated to the worship of water deities and was built using the Opus Isodomum technique with perfectly crafted trachyte and basalt blocks. The origin dates back to the Late Bronze Age (13th century BC) and was frequented until the beginning of the Iron Age (4th century BC). Discovered in 1953, the site is located on a rock face where spring water flows and supplies the holy well with water. Su Tempiesu is the only remaining original evidence of a covered, hilltop sacred well structure. The temple is about seven meters high and consists of a vestibule, a staircase and a chamber that protects the source of the spring water. The vestibule is square with a slightly sloping floor and projecting walls and is made of panels that form a narrow pointed arch. There are two counter seats at the base of the side walls, while the small offering cabinets are positioned in the brickwork. The back wall leads to an outward-facing, curved staircase. Four steps lead to a small room with a tholos (false dome) and paved floor and a decantation pit in the middle. The roof is exceptional: it is a double-pitched roof with double-shaped eaves. It culminates in a triangular tympanum. On top of it rested an acroterion (ashlar stone in the shape of a truncated pyramid), which carried twenty bronze swords decorated with votive motifs and with holes carved into them. In addition, numerous ex-voto bronzes were found: daggers, hatpins, pendants, bracelets, rings, necklace beads, pins and, above all, small statues of offerings, warriors, characters with capes and commander's staff. Other offerings were stored in chambers created from depressions in the rock. During flood periods, the overflowing water flows through a small canal dug into the floor of the vestibule and is channeled into a second small fountain, a smaller replica of the first. The small fountain is built at the foot of an outer curved enclosure and has a small channel with a finely crafted stalactite. There is a small arch above it, while at the bottom there is a small pit for decanting. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/explore/su-tempiesu