SardinianSardiniaFolklore

Tombe dei Giganti

Also known as: Tomba dei giganti, Tumbas de gigantis, Tumba de zigantes, Sa domu e s'orku, Giants' graves

Basic account

Around eight hundred Nuragic collective tombs in Sardinia, named for giants by popular tradition.

Account

Around eight hundred of them across the island. They are called giants' tombs because nothing else seemed large enough to need one.

Motifs

The giant as builder
Attached to a real place
The people who came before

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What is disputed

The regional authorities describe the giant-burial idea plainly as popular belief, and the tombs as an architectural evolution of earlier gallery graves.

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Sardinian regional archaeological documentation

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