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Lanusei<br />
Lanusei (5,841 inhabitants), main town of the Ogliastra, provides tourists,<br />
by virtue of its central location, with a gateway for easily accessing the<br />
natural beauties and tourist-cultural sites of the whole new province. Short<br />
routes by car also allow reaching both its beaches and its mountains.<br />
Here is a crystal-clear sea, with long stretches of beaches and secluded<br />
coves, sometimes reachable only by sea or through trekking paths:<br />
On the left:<br />
Paintings in the<br />
Cathedral of Santa<br />
Maria Maddalena,<br />
Lanusei<br />
On the right:<br />
The rock spur<br />
“Perda’e Liana”<br />
in Gairo<br />
Cala Mariolu, Cala Luna, Cala Sisine, and Cala Goloritzè. In the<br />
multicoloured landscape of Ogliastra the unmistakable red rocks of<br />
Arbatax stand out, which provided for several years a natural backdrop to<br />
the jazz festival Rocce Rosse. From the sea, the mountains can easily be<br />
reached. These feature landscapes of unmatched beauty, such as the<br />
canyon of Su Gorropu (Urzulei), Perda longa (Baunei), Perda’e Liana<br />
(Gairo), and the chasm of Golgo (Baunei). The countryside of Ogliastra is<br />
marked by the tacchi, rocky plateaus rising over the surrounding heights,<br />
rich in natural pits of great scientific interest, such as those of Su Marmuri<br />
(Ulassai). These are sites where history has left its permanent sign: Domus<br />
de Janas, nuraghi and giants’ tombs, Baroque churches and Hispanic<br />
towers. Worth visiting is finally the church of Santa Maria Navarrese,<br />
surrounded by secular olive trees and founded, according to legend, by the<br />
daughter of the King of Navarra, who was seemingly marooned on the<br />
opposite coast.<br />
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