The nuragic village of Pinn’e Maiolu is located a short distance from Constitution Square where there is the Archaeological Museum and the church of St. Francis. Identified in the early 1980s, it has been the subject of archaeological investigations since 1988. The settlement is developed on a hill, arranging itself on natural terraces linked together by paved floors and paths made in the Nuragic age. Recently a new excavation campaign has revealed a series of dwelling structures and an articulated rainwater control system elaborated by the Nuragic population through the construction of underground canals. From one sector of the village come a number of stone basins that refer to rooms for the practice of hot steam bathing, as also hypothesized in other Nuragic villages. Most of the ceramic, lithic and metal artifacts found during the excavations are now on display at the Museum, and they attest to a frequentation of the site since the Bronze Age.
