Attractions and Places To See around Monte/Monti - Top 20

The short climb is worth it - you have a great view of the surrounding area and over Olbia.

In Telti, near Monte Pino, you can see this fascinating rock immersed in a beautiful landscape. It has the shape of an elephant, at least that's what it looks like when you look at it from afar.

Elephant rock.

Similar to the more famous Elephant Rock of Castelsardo, this rock formation near Telti, also in northern Sardinia, is very fascinating. While walking towards Monte Pino, take a few minutes to observe this strange rock that looks, indeed, like an elephant.

The Monti - Calangianus railway, a short line of only 27 kilometers in length, was originally part of a longer network connecting the main centers of the Gallura interior, which reached as far as the town of Tempio Pausania.

In front of the castle of Pedres, near the town of Olbia, an aura of mystery surrounds a nuraghic burial site. In the Giganti de su mont'e s'Abe (or s'Ape) tomb, the deceased were buried together, unlike the thousands of prehistoric burials of this type. In the burial room, the sacred rites associated with the deceased were performed, but here, unlike other places, the burial documents that accompanied the deceased until his union with the deity were not found in the sacred well. The construction of the building took place in two phases. In the first part, which dates back to the Bonnanaro culture period, the Allée Couverte tomb was built - a kind of elongated dolmen - which was subsequently built around 1600 BC. BC was converted into a giant tomb with an exedra and stele, some of which you can admire traces. The building, originally built in the shape of the head of a bull, a life-giving deity, was bordered by a semicircle at the front. In the center of the exedra was a four-meter-high granite stele and at the base a small opening that served as the entrance to the tomb. Inside, the tomb consisted of a ten-meter-long chamber, while the entire structure, which is still clearly visible, is one of the largest in all of Sardinia, measuring 28 meters long and six meters wide. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/su-monte-sabe

It is a medieval fortress, built of local stone in the mid-13th century, during the Visconti period of the Judicato of Gallura, and subsequently used by the Pisans to withstand the attack of the Aragonese. Until 1296, Nino Visconti was judge of Gallura (he was also the last), who used it for military purposes. His daughter Giovanna, who was unable to succeed him, took over his real estate assets, including this castle. The fortress's main role was to defend Civita and the borders with the Judicate of Torres. Originally the castle was equipped with four towers and was characterized by two squares, an upper and a lower one, surrounded by polygonal walls, accessible by stairs made of large granite blocks. In the upper square two ruined rooms are still visible, one of them with a groin vault, a cistern to collect rainwater and the keep, originally divided into four floors and allowing control of the area up to the Gulf of Olbia. Access to the tower was about 6 meters high and was via extendable wooden ladders. In 1339 the castle was entrusted to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. From the second half of the 14th century it was occupied by the Aragonese and then by the Judicate of Arborea. At the beginning of the 15th century there was a final abandonment, which was accompanied by the decline and depopulation of Civita (later Terranova Pausania). Most of the damage the fortress has suffered is due to neglect and neglect over the past few decades, but some is also due to the bombing of the last war. In the years following the conflict, it was also used as a functional structure for the administration of the nearby Olbia-Venafiorita airport. Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_di_Pedres

Named the 'Tomb of the Giants' due to its enormous size, this Middle Bronze Age burial tomb is well worth a stop to explore. The first iteration of the granite tomb is belived to have been constructed over 4,000 years ago, with later additions in around 1,600 BC.