NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SARDINIA

Abstract

WHILE Sicily possesses classical associations and remains of the highest interest, together with physical features more or less dependent upon the presence of the most famous volcano in the world; and while Lipari and the associated islands are remarkable for their evidences of past and present volcanic action, Sardinia can lay claim to neither the one interest nor the other, to any marked degree. Neither can we compare it with Iceland, or with Majorca, and perhaps the only special interest which belongs to it is the occurrence of large numbers of nuraghi—conical stone mounds of prehistoric construction, hollow within, and probably designed as tombs by the earliest inhabitants of the island. These are scattered over the island in large numbers, particularly near Torralba.