Su Para e sa Mongia
Su Para e sa Mongia ( German for the nun and the monk ) is the name of a menhir couple . The stones are six meters apart, by the sea, at Is Loddis, near Sant'Antioco outside the Parco del Sulcis near the road SS126 in the province of Sud Sardegna in Sardinia .
The larger of the two, about two and three meter high menhirs made of trachyte has an anthropomorphic shape, but is not a statue menhir .
Legend
Similar to the Corsican couple U Frate ea Suora (the monk and the nun) there is a legend about the love between them and the punishment in the form of petrification around the two.
See also
literature
- François de Lanfranchi: Le secret des Mégalithes . Edition Albiana, Aiaccio 2000, ISBN 2-905124-76-8 .
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Coordinates: 39 ° 4 ′ 34 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E