Gennargentu

Gennargentu means "silver doors", from the colour of the schistose rock that characterises its geological formation. Its mountains indeed contain a unique microcosm: its high peaks, that go up to 1834 metres above sea level at Punta La Marmora, face onto uncontaminated nature from where the main watercourses of the eastern Sardinian area, the Cedrino and Flumendosa originate.
The flora that enriches the territory is in a considerable part constituted by endemic species such as the rare brooms of Pantelleria, Corsica and Moris, but not forgetting the meadows of thyme, with the perfume of the helichyrsum and the aromatic bushes, flown over by the golden eagle, the Eurasian black vulture, the raven, the peregrine falcon and the bearded vulture.

Castled at 910 metres, we find the town of Tonara whose name is strictly associated with the production of nougat (torrone), which is later dedicated during a feast on Easter Monday, but also to craftsmanship in general, with an ample production of wood from the chestnut tree, juniper and wild cherry. Its main square is dedicated to its poet Peppino Mereu, while along the roads stones are met which have been sculpted and carved by the contemporary sculptor Pinuccio Sciola.
In Desulo, however, another characteristic town of the territory, in what was originally poet Antioco Casula's (nicknamed Montanaru) home, an ethnographic museum has been set up. In the outskirts of the town it is possible to admire some testimonies of nuragic epoch, such as the nuraghe Ura 'e Sole and along impervious paths to ascend towards Bruncu Spina.
A feast in October is devoted to chestnuts in Aritzo, another characteristic town, specialised also in the manufacture of wood and whose outskirts contain large forests.