EMERALD COAST
Entire day. Departure from the
Hotel by bus towards Porto cervo, halt and visit in the centre. Sack
lunch on the beach of Baia Sardinia. Panoramic tour of the Emerald
Coast with brief halt to Coda Cavallo Cape – East Head.
BUE MARINO CAVES
Half day. Departure from the Hotel
by bus towards Cala Gonone, continuing to the Bue Marino Caves by
motorvessel.
BUE MARINO CAVES – CALA LUNA
Entire day. Departure from the
Hotel by bus towards Cala Gonone. Moving to the Bue Marino caves by
motorvessel. Continuing always by motorvessel towards Cala Luna .
Sack lunch on the beach.
MADDALENA E CAPRERA
Entire day. Departure from the
Hotel by bus towards Palau. Moving by ferry-boat to Maddalena and by
bus till Caprera. Guided visit to the house of Garibaldi. Sack lunch
in the pine-wood of Caprera. Panoramic tour by bus from Maddalena
with brief halts in some belvedere.
Moving by ferry-boat to Palau and
halt at the Sardinian craftmanship centre in Olbia.
OROSEI village 12 km from the
Hotel.
Orosei is a seaside place situated
on the central-oriental coast of Sardinia. It is a quiet village in
the province of Nuoro linked to the main road trough two state roads
that intersect it.
The variuos geological happenings
have moulded this area, giving to it, in a very smal space, a nice
alternation of landscapes thanks to the concomitant presence of the
sea and the mountains, of the river and the ponds, of the alluvial
plain and of the basaltic jar.
Thanks to its closeness to the sea,
the village has a quite mild climate during the winter, while during
the summer the almost hot temperature gets colder by the sea breeze.
Thanks to these favourable
conditions, Orosei has become an appreciated touristic centre,
provided of the main receptive structures.
TERRITORY
TUTTAVISTA MOUNTAIN
PONDS OF SA CURCURICA AND
BIDERROSA ( NATURAL RESERVE )
DAMP AREAS
BEACHES
REEVES
Concerning the archeological sites
there are :
The Domus de Jana of Conca Ruia.
The wide cave with the same name
which opens itself on a sheer descending wall of the Tuttavista
mountain. The cave, from whose tops, some stalactites hang, contains
two Domus de Janas.
The Nuragic village of Sa Linnarta.
It is without doubts the most
important nuragic village of the area, which was the main of a lot
of villages placed near the sea and along the edges of the golleus.
HISTORICAL CENTRE AND RURAL
CHURCHES.
Orosei is one of the villages of
the province of Nuoro that shows less degradation of the historical
centre. This area occupies at the moment about the one third of the
whole village.
The church of Saint Maria of the
sea, built by Pisan merchants in the XII century.
The church of Saint Lucia.
It is one of the rural churches
most dear to the tradition of orosei people, who celebrate there the
feast twice a year ( on 13th december and on the first
Sunday after Easter ).
Sanctuary of Saint Antonio Abate.
It is the architectonic building
where mostly it is possible to breathe the sensation of Middle Age,
either for the structures still preserved or for the glorious
institution of a hospital linked at them.
Old castle-prison.
The church of Saint Gavino.
The church of Saint Sebastiano.
Sanctuary of the Rimedio.
It is one of the most typical
country sanctuaries in Sardinia, with the church in the middle
surrounded by a small unicellular houses called cumbessias that
receive the faithful people during the prayers. Here there are at
least one hundred little houses that delimit the wide yard
full of trees.
The oratory of the Confraternities.
In the village three
confraternities work. They are called of the Saint Cross, of the
Rosario and of the Souls. They are ancient associations of lays that,
wearing a characteristic dress, dedicate themselves particularly to
the practice of worship in their oratories properly built since
their own institution.
Rural houses.
Numerous are the examples of rural
architecture still completely preserved.
Exclusive bulidings.
Primacial of Saint Giacomo.
It is the most beautiful building
in the village, from the architectural point of view.
MUSEUM OF SIR GIOVANNI GUISO
The " Museum of Guiso "
is the first museum of the 2000 and it is placed in the historical
centre of Orosei.
It is the first in Orosei and
unique in the world for its background and subject. It is the gift
of Giovanni Guiso to its native village, now owner of an artistic
and cultural inheritance that includes:
A collection of little theatres
from 1700 till today;
A collection of drawings of the
Roma School (1930-1945 );
A collection of ancient a rare
books about Sardinia;
A collection of " Sardinian
Costumes " fromm 1880 till today;
Works of Siena art.
MOST CHARACTERISTIC FEASTS
On 16th and 17th
January, the Feast of Saint Antonio Abate takes place, in the
churchyard of the church that has the same name, with a big bonfire
on the eve of the feast.
Rituals of the Holy Week: the most
spectacular cerimonies happen in three processions: Sos Sepurcros,
Su Brossolu and S’Incontru that take place on the Thursday, Friday
and in the morning of Easter Day.
On 14th April, it takes
place the country feast of Saint Lucia.
Procession of Saint Isidoro: it is
a procession that takes place on 15th May ( or the
following Sunday ) honouring Saint Isidoro the farmer, whose statue
is in the Church of the Grazie. The procession takes place along the
streets of the village with a parade of carts hauled by oxes
attentively decorated by purpose.
The last Sunday of May takes place
the Feast of Saint Maria of the sea with the suggestive procession
of boats on the Cedrino river.
The festival of the Madonna del
Rimedio : it is the longest lasting feast (18 days) in the frame of
the famous sanctuary of Maria. Holy and profane match perfectly
together. The day of the feast, in which the animation arrives at
its climax, is on the second Sunday of September.
CITY OF NUORO : distance from the
hotel : about 50 km.
It is possible to visit the house
of Grazia Deledda ( Nobel Prize for Literature ), now restored and
transformed in museum, with documents of her writing activity and
tools of the domestic and agricultural-pastoral life at the time.
The museum of the daily life and
of the popular traditions, where are contained the costumes and the
objects of the traditional life in the sardinian inland villages:
particularly important are the halls dedicated to the carnival masks
of Barbagia.
Speleological-archeological museum
with remains ant prooves of the variuos prehistorical epoches.
Half a day outing
VILLAGE OF OLIENA . Distance from
the hotel : about 50 km.
A little far from the village
there is the carsic spring of Su Gologone, in an extremely
suggestive landscape, surrounded by a little wood of wild oleanders
and dominated by the rustic church of Saint Maria.
Continuing, it is possible to
reach the Lanaitto valley, placed in the middle of big calcareous
ridges developed in a series of endless gorges, crevasses, neddles
and frightening swallows.
In the gorges, there are the
entrances to some suggestive caves with spectacular undergroung
little lakes : among these " Sa Oche ", " Su Bentu
" ( probably the longest in Italy ) and the cave of "
Corbeddu ", that nowadays has a particular archeological and
paleontological interest.
Next to the Lanaitto valley there
is the Tiscali mountain ( to be visited with an experienced guide
because of its difficulty to be reached ), that is a huge calcareous
cliff. On its top, in a cave where the vault failed, was built a
little and secret village in the nuragic epoch, of which a large
number of ruins remain. It dominates the valley.
A daylong outing
Few kilometres from the village of
Dorgali, it is possible to visit the nuragic village of " Serra
Orrios ", formed by about 70 huts, some wells, a holy fence and
two interesting and rare little temples made on a rectangular plane:
maybe it is the village that is in the best conditions of
preservation among the ones known.
Half a day outing
Along the S.S. 125 Orosei –
Dorgali there is the " Ispinigoli " cave, a wonderful
natural cavern already patronized in the nuragic and punic period,
probably used as a holy place. It is said, it was used for the
execution of human sacrifices; moreover it contains a stalagmite
that is 38 metres high, the highest in Europe.
Half a day outing
The gorge of Gorropu is an
impressive canyon characterized by perfectly vertical walls, more
than 200 metres high, where endemisms and other rare botanic species
grow.
A daylong outing
