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The
Baunei territory offers a wonderful harmony between
the mountain and the sea; its coast line is 25 miles
long with bastions, calcareous cliffs that sheer drop
into the sea, and which are carved with small creeks.
The shore spreads from Santa Maria Navarrese to Cala
Luna. The most famous sights from the south are Pedra
Longa needle, Montesanto cape, Porto Pedruso, Cala
Goloritzé, Ispuligidenie (also know as Cala Mariolù),
Cala Biriàla, Cala Sisine and Cala Luna.
The
territory is constituted of karstic vales of the
basaltic Golgo plateau with the "Su Sterru"
pit (the deepest in Europe) and the karstic plateau "Margine".
The Royal eagle, the Queen hawk, the Corsican sea-gull,
the Bonelli eagle live here. There are a great number of
very interesting caves and pits all along the coast,
below and above sea level.
The
historical patrimony is not to be forgotten, there are
numerous traces of the different historic periods.
Anthropozoic silts from the prenuralghic period were
found as well as nuraghes, nuragic villages, forts and
tombs of the nuragic giants period. Sights and coins
from the imperial and republican periods and also from
Roman times were also discovered. You will also have to
visit the Santa Maria Navarrese and Eltili medieval
churches, the Spanish tower and the Golgo church.
Besides, for rock climbers, numerous walls have been
equipped, for a variety of levels, offering unique and
exceptional views between needles and cliffs steep
above the sea.
Santa
Maria Navarrese hamlet is at the foot of a hill
covered with olive trees, fig trees, locust trees and
lotus trees and a thick bush. This coastal village is
named after a small church erected in 1052 by the
Navarre Princess, daughter of the king Garcia Sanchez V.
She has likely fled her country because of a love sin
and she is said to have wanted to thank the Madona for
saving her life after a shipwreck near the frightening "Monti
Insani" now called Monte Santo. |
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