The Palmavera nuraghe is an archaeological site in the territory of Alghero a few kilometers from the city and one and a half kilometers from the sea towards Porto Conte inside the park of the same name

The complexity of the buildings is yet another confirmation of the ability of the Nuragic civilization

It is built with limestone and sandstone blocks and consists of a central body with two towers in addition to a rampart, the vestiges of the huts of a village: today there are less than 50, originally it was estimated between 150 and 200

It was certainly built in later stages

The first, dating back to the XV-XIV century aCsees the construction of the main tower, eight meters high with a diameter of ten

Inside the tower there is a central chamber with a tholos covering

A staircase led to an upper floor and to the terrace

In a second phase around the ninth century aCanother tower was added, connected to the first with a courtyard and a corridor

Also the large meeting hut was added inside which is the round seat of the head

Among the various furnishings of the hut, a model of nuraghe has also been found, a jewel of prehistoric art typical of other complexes in Sardinia (as many as 16 were found in Mont'e Prama)

In the complex of the Palmavera nuraghe it is possible to see a copy of the model, whose original is kept in the museum GASanna of Sassari

In the third phase of construction around the IX-VIII centuries aC, a perimeter wall was erected with four towers

Studies show that the village was later destroyed by fire probably around the 8th centuryCto be repopulated later in the Punic and Roman times

The part of the nuragic village of Palmavera that today is visible and can be visited amounts to about a quarter of its original size, with only about fifty huts of the original 200

Around the Nuragic village of Palmavera there is a path that can be practiced by bicycle, from which one can easily reach the bay of Porto Conte (formerly called by the Romans Portus Nympharum ) where it is possible to visit the oldest Phoenician seaport on the island, the site of traffic with the oriental world: Sant'Imbenia (XV-VIII sec aC), the port remained crucial in the crucial commercial routes of the Phoenicians, Etruscans and Greeks up to the 7th century