Sennori (SS)

Sennori is a small town arranged in an Amphitheater on a steep hill overlooking the coast.

It is a center with a solid agricultural economy: olive growing, viticulture, cattle breeding with a great tradition also in the artisanal and commercial fields.

Sennori has been part of the National Association of Cities of Wine since 1987 (the year of its foundation) and is also part of the National Association of Cities of Oil.

The villa of Sennori, mentioned in the condaghe of S. Pietro in Silki, had importance in Roman and medieval times, as evidenced by the ruins of country residences and thermal buildings scattered in the surrounding area, the traces of a road network and the remains, referable to the Giudicale and Aragonese periods, of religious architecture.

The presence of man in the territory of Sennori is attested starting from the Neolithic as evidenced by the numerous archaeological sites such as the domus de janas of the Orto di Beneficio Parrocchiale, the necropolis of Serra Crabiles.

Even during the nuragic period the territory of Sennori was widely frequented as evidenced by the site of Su Nuraghe, the Nuraghe of Badde Margherita, the Nuraghe of Badde Puttu, the Nuraghe of San Biagio and the tomb of the giants of Oridda.

The latter forms a unique monument of its kind due to a series of typical characteristics that allow it to be defined as a dolmenic and orthostatic type tomb.

The monument is carved into the rock and is entirely lined with masonry, while the facade has been monumentalized with a quadrangular stele in which the door opens and with an orthostatic exedra. Inside the tomb, the skeletons of 27 people were found, including twenty men and women, children and a fetus. The pottery found confirms a chronology within the Middle Bronze Age.