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Outside the village is the park Tortolì San Salvatore.

It's not really a natural park, but a resort where you can admire ancient buildings dating back to prehistoric Nuragic. The Nuraghi are tower-shaped buildings that date back to 2000 years BC and were intended to be defensive quarters. Their name derives from the original language of the place that showed the piles of stones with Nur-shaped hollow.

Besides these wonderful architectures, strictly unique if not on the Sardinian territory, there are also tombs and standing stones standing stones, dating back thousands of years ago.

Not really in Tortoli, but close enough is instead the Gennargentu National Park.

This is a vast territory and protected marine areas, but is not limited to the hinterland, which is often overlooked in Sardinia.

Here you will find many species of animals and plants, typical of the Mediterranean forests and mountain ridges of the only mountain range on the island.

The first mention of Tortoli (although its foundation dates back to 3000 BC) date back to the Roman Empire domination by foreign peoples, first the Carthaginians, then the Goths, to pass under Arab rule, and then Spanish. In about 1100 he joined the court of Cagliari and became the capital of the County of Quirra.

Its recent history is more detailed: in 1807 became the provincial capital until 1859 when it leaves the scepter Lanusei and becomes part of the province of Cagliari.

One of the blackest pages in the history of this country is scirtta But in 1869 when he arrives in town smallpox, brought by a prisoner, who claimed many victims. Just continue to make smallpox deaths in 1908, until the arrival of the even worse Spanish flu.

Meanwhile Tortolì changes again and passes under Nuoro province until the year 2005 when in fact became the capital with Lanusei Ogliastra.

Another black page is then written in the second world war when Tortoli, in particular its port of Arbatax, is bombed by 18 planes to stop maritime trade of our country. A few years before had received the visit of Mussolini.