Discovered by chance in 1959, the hypogeic necropolis of Santu Pedru (4000-3500 cal. B.C.E. – 600 A.D.) consists of at least 10 hypogea, or tombs, excavated in a hill of tuffaceous trachyte, along the state road connecting Alghero and Uri.
Some of the tombs were reused until the early medieval period and partly modified in their structure.
Noteworthy – for its monumentality and complexity – is Tomb I, where it is still possible to admire architectural and decorative details (monumental dromos, pillars, steps, false lintel, cornices) and religious symbols (false door, taurine protomes and traces of red ochre).
This tomb is also called the “tetrapod vases”-or four-footed vases-which are the only examples of this type to have been found so far in Sardinia.
