Located on a small plateau near the right bank of the Rio Padrongianus, the S’Imbalconadu archaeological site is an ideal example of a rustic villa from the Roman Republican era. The structure underwent archaeological excavation in the mid-1990s and is well known to experts for the discovery of a granite stele with the symbol of the Phoenician goddess, Tanit.
The entire complex, built with local granite has two main buildings separated by a central courtyard. The first structure, used for production purposes, is arranged into various rooms, some of them for grinding grain and baking bread, others used to produce wine or oil; furthermore, other rooms were used as warehouses for the goods produced in the villa. The second building was the home of the farmer and his family. The latter was arranged into four rooms on the ground floor and perhaps an upper floor. The entry threshold is still preserved with the hinge on which the access door rotated. According to the excavation data, the site was populated from the middle of the II century B.C. to the middle of the I century B.C.
Take the country road SP24 from Olbia towards Loiri and right after the Loddone bridge, there is a clearing on the right where you’ll find the access to the site.
