The Domus de Janas: Italy in the Race for UNESCO
At Buongiorno Regione, the announcement of the official UNESCO candidacy: Montessu and other prehistoric monuments of Sardinia enter the Italian list.
On January 26, 2024, the broadcast Buongiorno Regione announced live a historic milestone: the Domus de Janas officially become the only Italian nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage list. The report, filmed in the spectacular necropolis of Montessu, in Sulcis, showed a site immersed in nature, with 35 burials spread over 50 hectares of park, among symbols engraved in stone, sanctuary tombs, and silhouettes of the Mother Goddess.
Thanks to the work of CESIM and under the guidance of Professor Giuseppa Tanda, the project encompasses 26 archaeological complexes, including Monte d’Accoddi, the Dolmen of Sa Coveccada, and the Petroglyph Park of Cheremule. The nomination is not only about the Domus de Janas but the entire pre-Nuragic Sardinian civilization, an expression of megalithism and of the hyp