Barumini
Encyclopedia
Barumini is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Medio Campidano
in the Italian
region Sardinia
, located about 50 km north of Cagliari
and about 15 km northeast of Sanluri
.
Barumini borders the following municipalities: Gergei
, Gesturi
, Las Plassas
, Tuili
, Villanovafranca
.
It is home to su Nuraxi di Barumini
, a Nuraghe
complex listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Medio Campidano
Province of Medio Campidano
Medio Campidano is a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy.It was created in 2005 from part of the province of Cagliari. It contains 28 communities, the largest of which by population are :-Politics:...
in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
region Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
, located about 50 km north of Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
and about 15 km northeast of Sanluri
Sanluri
Sanluri is the capital town of the province of Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy....
.
Barumini borders the following municipalities: Gergei
Gergei
Gergei is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km north of Cagliari. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,413 and an area of 36.1 km²....
, Gesturi
Gesturi
Gesturi is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km north of Cagliari and about 20 km northeast of Sanluri...
, Las Plassas
Las Plassas
Las Plassas is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km north of Cagliari and about 15 km northeast of Sanluri. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 275 and an area of 11.2 km².Las Plassas borders the following...
, Tuili
Tuili
Tuili is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km north of Cagliari and about 20 km northeast of Sanluri....
, Villanovafranca
Villanovafranca
Villanovafranca is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 50 km north of Cagliari and about 13 km northeast of Sanluri...
.
It is home to su Nuraxi di Barumini
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Su Nuraxi is a nuragic archaeological site in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997 as Su Nuraxi di Barumini.Su Nuraxi simply means "the nuraghe" in Sardinian....
, a Nuraghe
Nuraghe
The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture, the Nuragic civilization...
complex listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.