Domus de Janas vom Monte Arista

The Domus de Janas vom Monte Arista are ten chambered rock-cut tombs on the north slope of Monte Arista, in Cardedu, Nuoro province, Sardinia, Italy. They are also called “houses of the fairies” and are attributed to the Ozieri culture. The group is in good condition and forms one of several known domus de janas sites across Sardinia.

The tombs were cut directly into the rock and are arranged in three groups. Group A consists of single-chamber tombs at the deepest part of the site, while groups B and C contain tombs with several chambers. The site has ten tombs in total, including four numbered 5 to 8 that stand highest and have two or three chambers each.

Tombs with one or two chambers are aligned lengthwise and entered through short, roughly square dromos. They were cut into separate granite blocks. The site lies at the foot of Monte Arista, at an altitude of 447 metres, west of the beach called Perde Pera. A marked walking trail reaches the tombs and also the surviving remains of the nuraghe Is Follas, about 300 metres to the west on a promontoire.

Domus de janas in Sardinia are prehistoric rock-cut chamber tombs whose small rooms resemble houses. The name is folklore: later people imagined them as dwellings of fairies or witches, although they are funerary monuments. More generally, monuments of this kind in Sardinia were built mostly between 3400 and 2700 BCE, spanning the Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and early Bronze Age, including the Bell Beaker period.

Domus de Janas vom Monte Arista is a chambered cairn in Cardedu, Italy. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Domus de Janas du Mont Arista", shown in the original language.