Places to visit in Ogliastra   

  Jerzu and the Tacchi D'Ogliastra  

Ogliastra

For Places to visit in Ogliastra choose the magical beauty of Sardinia’s east coast; here you see the splendid nature at its best.  

This area, sandwiched between the sea and the mountains, has an unlimited number of unique landscapes. A clear crystal sea laps against the long richly-shaped coastline, made of sunny beaches alternating with majestic cliffs that rise up proudly to dominate the sea. Without shame, we can say that this is Sardinia’s wildest and most beautiful coastline. Small isolated sandy bays such as Cala Mariolu, Cala Luna, Cala Biriola, Cala Sisine and Goloritzé are uncontaminated charming  jewels. Stupendous oases jammed between the sea and rock covered by the green of the moss, they maintain their ruggedness and wildness, forming one of the Mediterranean’s most magical coastlines. Another spell is cast by the nature, which climbs uninterrupted over the hills right up to the mountains of the Gennargentu, showing at every step what its creativity has been capable of making, and satisfying one’s eyes with the unique beauty of the landscape.  

Ogliastra is an area full of places to visit. Man has lived there for centuries, respecting the land, and creating a harmonious marriage with the environment. A place where a fleeting glance isn’t enough.    This is Ogliastra, an authentic and fascinating historical region of Sardinia!  

Jerzu  

 Jerzu is known as the " città del vino", in fact it’s famous in the whole region for the quality of its wine, Cannonau, whose name is derived from the particular type of grape used. The town is built at 500 m amsl on the slopes of a hill wedged between the mountains and the sea, and surrounded by imposing limestone tacchi. Beaches 20km away (Marina di Cardedu and Gairo ).

The archeological richness of the territory with its nuragic villages and the domus de janas  is increasingly of interest to both students and experts. There are no less than 30 nuraghi and in the tacco del Monte Corongiu there is a Punic necropolis and hut from the same period. The wood uphill from the town where the church is S. Antonio is situated is charming. 

Escursioni in Ogliastra

The Tacchi d'Ogliastra are wild places, unique in Sardinia, where you can enjoy uncontaminated natural environments and see many prized species of plants and animals such as the Golden Eagle, the Muflon and centuries-old Holm oak forests.  

The Tacchi are dolomitic limestone outcrops, so-called because they resemble the upturned heel of s shoe. Perda Liana is the most famous example. The Tacchi extend over an area of about 28 square km over the territories of the communes of Ulassai, Osini, Gairo e Ussassai. 

The area includes, in addition, the Tacco of Monte Tisiddu, Monte Arquerì, the Tacco Arba of Ussassai, Monte Lumburau, the Taccu Anguil'e Ferru e Punta Corongiu of Jerzu.  

Perda Liana is Sardinia’s most famous natural monument: it rises up, isolated, at almost 1300m and it’s truly spectacular to see it towering up from afar. The poet Sebastiano Satta described it like this in his poems: "the red mountains of red carnations, black eagles go to meet the sun, the high divine Gennargentu glows in the evening ". 

The region of the Tacchi d'Ogliastra is characterised by extensive outcrops of Paleozoic rock, for the major part metamorphic, with philladic schists and Silurian sandstones, which constitute the bedrock on which are laid down in irregular layers the Mesozoic carbonates of the "Serie dei Calcari". It’s possible to find fine calcite and dolomite crystals. At the foot of Monte Tisiddu part of the jawbone with teeth belonging to a fossilized fish, in all probability belonging to the family Picnodus.  

The area of the Tacchi is rich in nuragic complexes and there are 14 nuraghi in the area, of which Serbissi situated at 964 m amsl, Urceni, Is Cocorronis, Mela, Sanu, Su Samuccu and Pranu have been the object of study. In the area only 4 Tombe dei Giganti have been found, making us think that either other forms of burial were used, or that others have been destroyed.  

It’s hard to describe in words how you feel when you’re in the Tacchi d'Ogliastra!  

Country festivals at Jerzu  

June: FESTA S. ANTONIO July: FESTA S. GIACOMO August: SAGRA DEL VINO E CALICI DI STELLE NOVEMBER: FESTA DEL VINO NOVELLO

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