Long before modern paths, roads and villages, Monte Pino was already a strategic place for humankind.
Its heights, overlooking both the sea and inland Gallura, formed a natural point from which to observe and control the territory. From here, the gaze could range across a vast distance: towards the Mediterranean, the inland valleys and the natural routes travelled over the centuries by people, flocks and communities.
It was probably this privileged position that led Nuragic peoples to frequent and guard Monte Pino.
Even today, archaeological remains and stone structures bearing witness to human presence in the remotest periods can be found among the pine forests and great wind-shaped rocks. The Nuragic structures on the mountain appear to confirm the strategic role of these heights as a natural stronghold for observing and defending the territory of Gallura.
Experiences devoted to the “footsteps of the Nuragic people” will guide residents and visitors into this ancient dimension of Monte Pino, along routes that unite archaeology, nature, springs and landscape. The excursions will follow paths immersed in pine forest and Mediterranean scrub, crossing some of the mountain’s most evocative areas: great granite formations, panoramic viewpoints, archaeological traces and natural springs that have sustained life in the area for centuries.
Water is another essential element of this experience. The mountain springs, immersed in the silence of the forest and sheltered among the rocks, tell of the ancient relationship between people and nature in a territory where water was vital to community life and to journeys across the inland heights of Gallura.
Stops at the springs and archaeological areas will allow participants to experience the mountain not only as a natural environment, but also as a historic and human landscape shaped over time by the civilisations that inhabited it.