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Description
You must
drive up the winding mountain roads of Ogliastra to reach
the small village of Osini, but a visit to such an
unusual place, so far-away from the beaten tracks of
conventional tourism, is well worth it. Take the road from
Jerzu to Gairo, driving along the SS.125 (if you are coming
from Cagliari), or after skirting briefly the Alto
Flumendosa lake (if you are coming from the north). Coming
from the south, the first village you will encounter is
Osini Nuova, the new settlement built after 1951; drive just
a bit further and you will get to the old village abandoned
after devastating torrential rains caused a tremendous
landslide. |
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On leaving
the village you can reach one of the many Nuragic villages
used as a sheep-fold until a few years ago. The most
important and best-kept Nuraghic complex is Serbissi,
located just a short distance from a Neolithic tomb, called
S’Orku. Along the series of rocky cliffs that delimit
the vast limestone plateau called Taccu of Osini, to
the east, is Scala di San Giorgio (St George’s
ladder). For ladder the local people intend a steep
and rugged pass through a crag. In fact it is a very narrow
gorge ,with high limestone-dolomitic walls, through which
runs the road coming from nearby Osini.
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