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A fortified promontory settlement in the southwestern part of the island excavated by R. Grosjean in the 1950s. The main feature of the site is a Bronze Age torre or tower. Circular in plan and constructed in dry-stone walling, it is set with in a walled enclosure which also contains oval houses. It dates to the mid 2nd millennium bc, and incorporates fragments of statue menhirs showing men armed with bronze daggers and swords.
[Rep.: R. Grosjean, 1961, Filitosa et son contexte archéologique dans la Vallée du Taravo. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]
