Monumenti aperti
Nuraghe Sirai

Logbook of the demolisher: star date 6.2017514

You must know that around here - I'm not sure if it is specifically regional or Italian* - there is a show/event/festival called "Monumenti Aperti" which should provide free access, just once of course, to the monuments present in (*one’s own) territory.

Alright.
Very pleasing that among the (so-called) "Open Monuments" was also the "brand new" (so to speak) Nuragic Complex located at the foot of Monte Sirai, in the province of CI, Africa.
It is an extraordinary megalithic monument (commonly called Nuraghe) with a five-lobed plan whose intensive excavations began just a few years ago.

Weather Note (because it always draws attention): with 29° in the shade, I went there to finally enjoy the excavations - which I had already seen previously during my nocturnal activity as a tomb raider - but mainly for the relative "historical-scientific" analysis carried out on-site by some talented editor of archaic stones et similar.

But instead.
Yes, they let you "visit" it, but so to speak... to be precise, they let you partially circumnavigate it (from below) as if we were descendants of Bartolomeo Diaz..

Official reason:
"because the workers carrying out the excavations were all laid off a couple of months ago...":

I thought: here we go again.. but then came the unexpected/genius stroke:
"The stones of the site could move because they are unstable since there are no longer staff to stabilize them.."
{my ears are still incredulous 24 hours later!!!}:

MACCAZZAROLA these blessed stones have been planted here (there) for three thousand five hundred years!
You let me sniff them from afar and don’t let me see/touch/trample/eat them.
You don’t let me "understand" them.

In short: I don’t understand.
I turn around: I see over there in the parking lot my tricycle that's catching fire (metaphorically): the temperature rises.

Another detail: in addition to not allowing physical access to the site, they left the white plastic sheets ABOVE the extraordinary (and apparently first) "workshops" for glass production and leather processing. But they showed us the related panels with photos, placed a few meters away..

In short:
there was indeed the "open" entrance gate of the "Open Monument" and a couple of willing and prepared students (available and good, to be fair, but still kids I think from middle school..) who in turn repeated with unexpected sobriety the spiel learned in school.
Nothing against the kids, to be clear.. who, indeed, seemed to take their role very seriously and performed it to the best of their ability.

In practice: after a ten-minute "guided" visit, I gloomily put on my helmet and took off with a thousand questions and zero answers.

This is our situation: what should give prestige and attract/inspire people in our extraordinary (certainly not by the merit of contemporary villagers) country is indeed exploited in the worst way.
Nothing like "Blond Sardinia" (or "Fantastic Italy").

*then they explained to me that it’s a "boot-shaped" thing