Cagliari Shore Excursion: Well Temple Archeo Tour
Description
You will hop aboard your transportation and begin your tour. Escape the large cruise excursion crowds as this is an exclusive yet very affordable excursion, so it will just be you and your group (optional).
You will travel to Paulilatino; the trip takes about 2 hours to visit THE LARGEST NURAGIC MASTERPIECE.
The well temple of Santa Cristina (XII century b.C.) is one of the most important examples of religious and building evidence of the Nuragic period. It consists of a Dromos (vestibule) and a stone staircase which leads to an hypogeic "tholos" room. The temple is surrounded by a perimetral wall (themenos). Inside this area of the Sacred Well, where a local guide will lead us to visit the well temple, and also the Christian Village where the small Medieval rural church of Santa Cristina, built by the Camaldolese Monks, is located. About 50 mt. far from the church, along a path, we will get to the beautiful Nuraghe of Santa Cristina (XVI century b.C.), a simple circular Nuragic stone tower.
The well temple is the highest architectural expression of the Nuraghic civilization dating back to around 3000 years ago. However, it seems to be built today with its square boulders perfectly embedded with perfect geometry. It is the most representative sacred well of the island, where stories, legends, and truths are intertwined.
But there is something that not everyone knows, a series of incredible events that regularly occur. In September from 21st to 23rd at 12.00 and March from 18th to 21st at 11.00 on the occasion of the equinoxes, the sun perfectly lights up the bottom of the well through the stairwell.
The sun, with its rays, is reflected inside the well until it touches the water. In this circumstance, the observer, while descending the last six internal steps, is accompanied by two shadows: one is projected into the water, the other falls from the tholos chamber upside down.
The phenomenon, obviously, arouses many wonders in those who live it.
THE GREATER LUNISTICE: Every 18.6 years, during the period of greater lunistice, the moonlight reaches the mirror of water reflecting perpendicularly through the hole of about 30 cm of the tholos room.
Theories established since 1972 by the intuition of Carlo Maxia and Lello Fadda with the support of the astronomer Edoardo Proverbio.
Theories that in 2005 bring Sardinia Professor Arnold Lebeuf author of the book “Il Pozzo di Santa Cristina a lunar observatory ” in 2011, after five years of study.