Escalaplano

Escalaplano is a village of around 2,200 inhabitants set at 338 metres above sea level on a limestone plateau between Ogliastra and the Sarrabus, in the province of South Sardinia. Its name echoes the shape of the land — steps and plains, terraces and plateaus — that characterises this transitional zone between two very different worlds. But the true treasure of Escalaplano is underground and ancestral: the archaeological site of Pranu Muttedu, with more than 60 menhirs and numerous dolmens and domus de janas, is considered the largest concentration of megalithic monuments in Italy and one of the most important prehistoric sites in the western Mediterranean. Those who come here enter into direct contact with three thousand years of silent, majestic history.