Visiting Monte d’Accoddi: a journey through time in the Sassari countryside

Visiting Monte d’Accoddi means entering a landscape where the silence of the Sassari countryside interacts with one of Europe’s most enigmatic sacred architectures. From the base of the altar, the monument’s proportions are immediately apparent: a truncated pyramid-shaped platform, approximately nine meters high, with a long ramp that invites you to ascend to the summit.

Around the altar, other elements of the complex can be recognized: the large slabs interpreted as offering tables, the spheroidal stones, the raised menhir, and the traces of the villages and underground necropolises that completed the sacred landscape.

It is a perfect place for a guided tour, for educational activities with schools, or simply for those who love archaeology and want to discover a lesser-known side of Sardinia. As visitors often say, at Monte d’Accoddi, “you don’t just look at a monument: you enter the scene of a five-thousand-year-old ritual.”