Case e Appartamenti per Vacanze a Santa Maria Navarrese

The Ogliastra region is in the east of Sardinia, and is bounded to the north by the Supramonte, to the west by the Gennargentu and to the east by the sea. It's a mostly-mountainous area, with mountains, high crags and deep gorges. The plain of Tortolì seems to offer the only relief from the tormented form of the land, where often villages are built on rocky hillsides, and much of the territory is uninhabited. This is a true wilderness, where the visitor can really rediscover the pleasure of entering into a world of primordial beauty, with few signs of being previously explored.Morphologically Ogliastra is very varied. If you look closely, the northern part is part of the Supramonte, and very different from the more southern part, known as the area of the tacchi, limestone formations which resemble upturned shoe heels, tacchi in Italian. Also the rock is varied. In nearly all of Ogliastra we find limestone, but this is replaced by granite and porphyry in the comunes (municipalities) of Villagrande, Talana, Lotzorai and Cardedu, to form a small heart of pink granite, which looks like the mountains of Texas, in a region whose vertical walls remind you of the Dolomites.Ogliastra presents a remarkable variety of countryside. After having visited Seui's woods, you feel like you're entering another universe when you look over Passo Arcuerì towards the area of the Tacchi. In the same way, the countryside of Baunei and Urzulei is different again, and reminiscent of the French Pre-Alps and the Calanques, with high sea cliffs, slender limestone pinnacles and deep gorges eroded by water.Apart from the few comunes by the sea, the villages of the interior are off the beaten track. Up to now surviving on agriculture, sheep and goat herding and handicrafts, these villages are discovering today new forms of tourism based on the area's natural beauty. Trekking and walking, mountain bike, canyoning, but above all climbing, represent development opportunities which don't require massive interventions and which make the most of an area which otherwise is being progressively abandoned.

Walls (click on the wall's names)

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Villaggio Gallico - Creuza de ma - Porto di S. Maria Navarrese