Armungia, atmosphere and culture


Armungia stands on a hill at 365 metres above sea level, in the central part of Gerrei, a mostly mountainous inner region of south-west Sardinia. It lies at 65 kilometres from Cagliari and 30 from Muravera and its beautiful beaches.
Visitors cannot avoid to be enchanted by the silence of the woods and the scents of the country. Several longtrunked tree woods can be found in the areas of Murdega, Is Storis, Miali and Is Forreddus. The latter is a municipal reforestation company of 130 hectares, with cycling tracks, rest areas and all the facilities visitors might need in order to enjoy lovely picnics or walks in the green. Apparently the town was founded by the Punics and it should owe its name to a leader named Aretusa.
Armungia is rich in nuraghic testimonies: in the centre of the residential area stands a nuraghe with a conical trunk shape. According to Giovanni Lilliu’s studies the nuraghe dates back to the Sardinian Middle Bronze Age (1500- 1400 B.C.) Armungia is an open air museum thanks to the several historical/archaeological monuments and the traces of day-to-day culture present along its small streets.

The ethnographic museum, Emilio Lussu’s house, the forge, the Nuraghe and the small houses all around are micro-testimonies of a complex and vast culture which gives a symbolic value to the heritage and the identity of the community.
The Museum system consists of the historical-ethnographic Museum, “ Sa Domu de is Ainas” (The house of tools), “la Bottega del Fabbro”(The Forge), the Urban Nuraghe and the Church of Beata Vergine Immacolata.