Cabras (Oristano)

In the Sinis peninsula, the monumental necropolis of Mont’e Prama has yielded the largest sculptural complex of the western Mediterranean of the early Iron Age: the Giants.

Mont’e Prama stands in the territory of Cabras, on a low rise between the lagoon and the Gulf of Oristano, in the north-central Sinis.

The area was crossed by routes linking inland, coast and lagoon system; cultivable land and lagoon and marine resources favoured a long human presence.

The oldest evidence dates to the Final Bronze Age (1150-850 BC). The area later became a monumental necropolis with burials, large statues, nuraghe models and betils.

Today the burials and some buildings can be seen; the statues and nuraghe models are kept in the Giovanni Marongiu civic museum in Cabras.

The necropolis comprises individual burials and buildings linked to funerary rituals. Beside tombs almost always without grave goods emerged statues of warriors, archers and boxers, nuraghe models, betils and ceremonial spaces.

The Sinis peninsula, between the Cabras lagoon and the Gulf of Oristano, is a landscape of lagoons, shores and hills, densely marked by nuraghi, villages and cult areas.