Castellu d'Arraggiu
The Castellu d'Arraggiu (also d'Arraghiu ; Corsican Casteddu d'Araghju ) near Porto-Vecchio is next to the Castellu di Cucuruzzu the most important and best preserved Torrean monument on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica .
The cult building, located 245 meters high near La Trinité on the Ospédale massif in the municipality of San-Gavino-di-Carbini , was excavated by Roger Grosjean since 1967 . The location allows u. a. a view of the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio and the Torre de Ceccia, ten kilometers away .
The surrounding wall of Arraggiu is 3 to 5 meters high and has a circumference of 120 meters. It is made up of pending rock outcrops , large stone blocks and dry stone masonry . The entrance, which is 2.6 meters high and 1.5 meters wide and is covered with stone slabs, with side niches or chambers in the east leads to an inner courtyard. On the right there are further niches in the widened masonry. The actual monument is in the south and consists of an incompletely preserved round building with a cell with two side niches. The excavations show that the Torreaner initially only erected monuments for cult purposes. Later other rooms were added, lastly the outer wall.
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Entrance area from the outside
Entrance gate
Enclosing wall
Rotunda with cell
inner space
literature
- Roger Grosjean : Le complexe torréen fortifié de Cucuruzzu (Lèvie, Corse). Première campagne de fouilles, 1963. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. 61, 1, 1964, pp. 185-194 online at Persée .
- Léria Franceschini, Séverine Leconte-Tusoli: Guide archéologique de la Corse. Albiana, Aiacciu 2006, ISBN 2-84698-160-4 , p.
- François Michel, Dominique Pasqualaggi: Carte archéologique de la Gaule, 2A-2B: La Corse. Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-87754-315-6 , pp.?
- Eugène Bonifay (Red.): Préhistoire de la Corse. Center Regional de la Documentation Pédagogique, Ajaccio 1990, ISBN 2-86620-50-3 , p.
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- Description and pictures
- Ensemble monumental torréen ou Castello d'Aragio I in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 41 ° 38 ′ 52.7 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 43.6" E