Gallura

The Gallura landscape is characterised by its granite rocks and its harsh mountains that, even if not particularly high (Monte Limbara reaches 1350 metres above sea level), have constituted for millennia a barrier between this region and the nearby territories of Baronie and Montalbo. The countryside (municipalities of Arzachena, Luogosanto, Aggius, Tempio Pausania) is scarcely inhabited and it is still possible, in some areas, to see the organisation of the territory into folds and pens.
The east coast is very jagged and continues along in a continuous series of small fiords, rock-cliffs and islets, that form the Archipelago of La Maddalena, a natural bridge towards nearby Corsica, within which is also found the island of Caprera, the evocative last exile of Giuseppe Garibaldi on which his tomb is found.

It is the territory that is home to the Emerald Coast, holiday paradise for many in the world, with a strong tourist vocation which offers top quality reception and entertainment services. The antiquity of the territory is proven by the presence of a number of constructions, such as those found along the Arzachena-Luogosanto road, with the tomb of the giants of Li Lolghi and the necropolis of Li Muri, made up by circles of vertically set stones in the ground, or such as those along the Olbia-Arzachena road with the Nuragic temple of Malchittu or the tunnel nuraghe Albucciu.
On the northern coast, the quarries can be observed of the now disused granite mines surrounded by the enchanting beaches of Capo Testa and Santa Reparata.