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EDILDUEDI operates in Sardinia, more exactly in
Orosei (Nuoro's province), a bathing locality among the most
characteristic of the island.
The namesake gulf opens in a symmetrical arc along the center-oriental coast of Sardinia
from Punta Niedda on the north, to Capo Monte Santo on the south.
The village is a bit isolated from the main communication roads but neverthless they can be easily
reached via the two principal roads which intersect Orosei:
the Orientale Sarda (S.S.125) which connects it to the harbour and airport of
Olbia and the Trasversale Sarda (S.S.129) connecting it to
Nuoro and from here to the rest of Sardinia.
Due to its sea proximity, the landscape enjoys a much mild climate in winter (its very frequent
blossoming of almond trees in the beginning of January), while in summer the rather high
temperature is dampened by the marine breeze.
Thanks to these favorable conditions Orosei is becoming more and more appreciated tourist center,
equipped with the main receptive structures able to satisfy a wide variety of demands.
THE COASTAL STRIP AND THE BEACHES
The several geological vicissitudes have modeled this area giving it, within a very close range,
an alternation of landscapes that we can see from the presence of sea and mounts, river and pond,
alluvial plain and basaltic "giara".
Along the coastal strip, 18km long, are following beaches, dunes of granitic sand, small inlets,
cliffs on the sea, needles and pinnacles of rocks, small shelters and big esplanades.
The endemic inland Mediterranean vegetation and forests of holm oak reaches the sea.
On the steep limestone cliffs are secular junipers bent from the wind.
The inlets are often the outlet to the sea of narrow gorges, embedded between the mountains:
in Sardinian they are called "codule".
On the bottom of "codula" is a stream, often dry in summer: along the sides
and on the gravel bed very beautiful bushes of oleander and alders reach the beaches as it
happens to Cala Luna.
Fulco Pratesi and Franco Tassi, in their "Guide of Sardinia's Nature",
about the Gulf of Orosei say: "... probably the most beautiful expanse of the Italian
shoreline in any aspect and, without any doubt, the most wild and savage".
The Gulf of Orosei is the marine border of the "Supramonte":
an immense mountainous territory yet wild and rich of forests and lunar landscapes.
Here along the cliffs numerous birds of prey, like the rare Hawk of the Queen, the Pilgrim Hawk and the
rarest Bonelli's Eagle are nesting.
A bit more northern of Orosei, the Rio Cedrino (a river), flows into
the deep and teeming with fish waters of the gulf.
A BIT OF HISTORY
In the Middle Ages Orosei was part of the "Giudicato di Gallura". Subsequently it
became the most important center of the "Baronia di Galtellì", which gave the name
to the actual region, placed in the lowland of Cedrino river and comprising, besides
Orosei and Galtellì, of the small villages of Onifai,
Irgoli and Loculi.
The historical center of Orosei preserves some important churches and rests of a
nuragic village.
THE TRADITIONS
Very rarely in documents or in the artistic works about Sardinia,
the popular traditions of Orosei are mentioned.
But the lack of a written history is replaced, at least in part, by the oral tradition and the
persistence of some folkloristic elements that are still strongly felt as own and that form a
strong cultural patrimony.
The high majority of the popular festivities are religious, even if they have quite often magical
superstitious elements, due to the great need to assure the celestial protection against the not
infrequent natural calamities or the evil forces. For this reason some festivities, felt above
all from the peasants, follow the yearly agrarian cycle, while others are pure expression of the
popular mercy.
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