The tombs of giants

The tombs of giants, extraordinary collective funeral monuments, are spread all over the Sardinia and they represent a kind of sepulchral tomb with a great fascination and mystery. Today they seem in a little disuse, too isolated and naked, probably in decline; but never we can say, like in this case, that the exterior misleads, because these big temples, apparently run down, despite their obvious humble condition, keep incredible energetic features.


Their name arises from the considerable sizes of the stele: the central rock with the small doorway. Today, in Sardinia, it is possible to count about tree hundred of them.
Their building is inclined to symbolize the bull protome, as a tribute to one of the most venerated divinities of the Sardinian nuragic and pre-nuragic people, namely the God Bull. Sacred places without equals, they were the perfect meeting point, where lives came across their ancestors buried there.


The dead laid down into the funeral monument were not merely dead, but favored, destined to go to a better life shortly afterwards, so deserving of respect; they had already jumped up towards the unknown, towards the afterlife that lives could only try to imagine.

During the time, these incredible monuments have become not only big sepulchral temples with a big symbolic meaning, but also places full of energy. Indeed, granite, namely the material with which most of the tombs of giants of the North of Sardinia were built, is still considered a great carrier of energy. Each tomb represents an important center of energetic emanation. Some academics could observe that this energy, amassed into the funeral framework, would have incredible therapeutic peculiarities towards all the people who were laid right inside.


The ancient manufactures had prepared the tomb building arranging the frontal in a semicircle, and this one would have to followed some hypothetical energetic telluric lines, catching the flux for propagate it in the various parts of the stone monument.


For benefitting from these advantages it is necessary to laying on the big ritual flat stone, situated along the hall of the building, after the entrance and waiting that the effect propagates from the stone to the body. Initially built with the aim of creating the perfect conditions such that the body of the dead was invaded by this wave of energy, today they represent a true remedy for who has some rather serious troubles. The silicon dioxide, that is present into the granite, indeed has an extraordinary natural therapeutic effect.

Coddu Vecchiu and Li Lolghi in Arzachena, S’Ena ‘e Thomes in Dorgali and Li Mizzani in Paulau are the most charming and the most considerable tombs from an energetic point of view. Above all in Li Mizziani sometimes it is possible to see queues of people such that this makes pale the most efficient and the most modern curative center.


Today the therapeutic potentialities of this monument are very known. The official medical science seems rather uncertain about the real curative effects of the tombs of the giants, because for curing backache, arthrosis, infiammation of the sciatic nerve, acute depression and various migraines, according to some doctors, it is not sufficient to relax for half hour next to the stele of these monuments, but to carry on with a true personalized therapeutic path through modern equipments.
It is true that the curative power of the stone, especially of that power that occurs through crossing, was known since the ancient times and Sardinian people confided a lot in the healthy forces that the various natural elements offered.


Today, in these wonderful corners of the Gallura, where to the intense aroma of the Mediterranean scrub it intersects the close harmony of the sea and to the charm of the stone, that erects as a monument, it melds the harmony of the wild landscape, so the visit into these monuments represents a perfect beginning for discovering again the uncontaminated nature, for go again through the Sardinian nuragic history, for living again intensely own centuries-old culture and why not, curing also backache.