Torri of the Alta-Rocca
Torrean Civilization appears at the Age of bronze, towards 1900 before JC, its name comes from the monuments which it primarily set up in our microphone-area: torri (turns, keeps).
One meets several types of torri, of simplest measuring ten meters in diameter and comprising in the center a small part of approximately 2 meters, the cella (room), others vaster, organized in village, comprise several dwellings and are girdled fortifications. This rural company where the craft industry was already present would be a megalithic evolution of the settlement of the island.
The monuments best preserved are here, of the plate of Levie to the gulf of Porto-Vecchio: Araghju, Cucuruzzu, Cappula, Tappa, Torre.
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