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The northwestern territory of the province of Sassari consists largely of the Nurra region, the second largest flat area in Sardinia after Campidano. This region falls mainly into the municipalities of Sassari, Porto Torres and Stintino, but it also occupies part of the municipalities of Alghero, Olmedo and Sorso. The surface of this northwestern area of the island, formerly covered by forests, thickets and swamps, is now generally bare and largely covered by extensive pastures, agricultural areas, Mediterranean scrub and garrigue. Of the large forests that covered it until the 19th century, only a few remnants of tunnel forests remain, along the valleys of small torrential rivers that cross it (e.g. Rio Mannu).
From the first years after World War II, until the 1950s and 1960s, the Nurra was the subject of extensive remediation interventions that, by reducing the swampy areas, completely eradicated the spread of malaria that spread from them; a scourge that since ancient history had always conditioned the agricultural exploitation of these lands, among the most depopulated and uncultivated in Sardinia.
The Nurse landscape area, of considerable naturalistic interest, is characterized by varied geological forms: alluvial territories that alternate with hilly and swampy areas in the central area and on the northern coast; rich in steep and impressive promontories overlooking the sea in the western coastal strip. Even with these contrasts, Nurra has a unified landscape climate that connects the high cliffs interspersed with coves immersed in wild and uncontaminated nature, to the silent plains of the inland rural areas, interrupted by gentle hilly reliefs.
Among the many small rural villages that populate this vast region, the main ones are: La Corte, Villassunta, Palmadula, Tottubella, Argentiera, La Pedraia, Biancareddu, Campanedda, Canaglia, Bacchileddu. Among these, the village of Argentiera stands out, dominated by the dark and fascinating buildings of the old silver mine now in disrepair, an important example of industrial mining archeology. Another anomaly in the region is the presence of Lake Baratz, the only natural lake in Sardinia, which houses a rich birdlife and is connected by an impressive dune system to the large bay of Porto Ferro, enclosed between two promontories on which stand two coastal sighting towers dating back to the 17th century.
In the northeast of this region, a few kilometers north of the city of Sassari, is Platamona beach, a long stretch of low, sandy coastline, with some ponds and a thick pine forest, which extends for about ten kilometers to the east, from the coastal tower of Abbacurrente (ca. 1571-1578) to Punta Tramontana.
A constant presence in Nurra is water: marine, fresh and brackish. Presence that characterizes the natural resources of this territory, determining a high biodiversity and the consequent multiplicity of living species present. Water from ponds and coastal lagoons that enrich the already substantial botanical and faunal heritage.
The marine, coastal and submerged environment, of the different coastal types of Nurra, is in turn populated by such a biodiversity of marine species that make it one of the areas of greatest scientific interest in the Mediterranean for marine biology.
Video - Historical documentary: ”Dawn on the wall”, the remediation, Etfas, Sixties.
The documentary, made by Fiorenzo Serra, testifies to the land transformation activity carried out in Sardinia after World War II. The film belongs to a series of short films produced by ETFAS (Authority for land and agrarian transformation in Sardinia).
Structure category: natural monument
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Environmental site
Province: Sassari
Common: Sassari
Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 07100
Address: la Nurra - Provincia di Sassari
Website: turismosassari.it/it/esplora-it/mare-e-natura/item/589-mare-e-natura-nella-nurra-di-sassari
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Sassari, la Nurra Images number: 12
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Author : Maddaloni, Eugenio
Year : 1959
Author : Maddaloni, Eugenio
Year : 1959
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