Travel guide

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