Reg.Nr. 92/I/003

Mount Arcosu Nature Reserve, Uta-Cagliari

Monte (Mount) Arcosu consists of 3000 ha of the most relevant part of the Sulcis forest from a naturalistic point of view. The vegetation is dominated by forests of ilex, junipers, cork trees and carob-trees, covers the granitic pink rocks of Sardinia. In this area, together with ...
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Project details

Title:Mount Arcosu Nature Reserve, Uta-Cagliari
Entr. year: 1992
Result:Diploma
Country: Italy
Town: Uta, Cagliari (Sardinia)
Category type: cultural landscape
Building type/ Project type: Cultural/Natural landscape
Actual use:Nature reserve with visitor facilities, open to the publich
The Jury's citation: "For the representation in the Italian naturalistic Iandscape of one of the first important realisations in saving a vast but neglected region"
Web, Links:

www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/monte-arcosu

Description:
Monte (Mount) Arcosu consists of 3000 ha of the most relevant part of the Sulcis forest from a naturalistic point of view. The vegetation is dominated by forests of ilex, junipers, cork trees and carob-trees, covers the granitic pink rocks of Sardinia. In this area, together with an incredible vegetation, survives also the Sardinian deer (already disappeared in Corsica and included in the red book of endangered animals published by IUNC). Most of the houses and cottages inside the reserve have been renewed and are nowadays used as houses for guards and as guest-rooms. The nature reserve is opened to the public and several nature-hiking trails have been created.