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CULTURE AND TERRITORY
Tertenia represents the southern boundary of the Ogliastra province. Rare example of perfect harmony between
mountains and sea, it is set in a valley placed at the slopes of
Giuilea Mountain, marked to the west by the plateaus of Taccu Mannu and of
Tacchixeddu, while to the east by the schist-granitic chain of Serramari. Halfway between the village
and the wonderful Marina di Tertenia, Ferru Mountain is the ideal place for long walks outside
in search of the local flora and fauna, where, sometimes, you will be able to sight the golden eagle or the rare
Bonelli's eagle.
Once you have passed FerruMountain, Marina di Tertenia, one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated shores of
Sardinia, opens wide in front of you: twelve kilometres of white and fine sand alternate with red porphyd reefs.
Shaped as an amphitheatre, you will find one after the other: Foxi Manna and its transparent seabed,
Melisenda beach, a stretch of sand dominated by the XVIIIth century S. Giovanni tower and Barisoni, where the water is blue and green.
Pride of Tertenia is being the place of origin of Albino Manca, a sculptor who in the thirties passed the Ocean
and managed to make a name for himself in the exclusive world of art in New York. The main square of the village contains a
small bronze model of the gigantic eagle placed as a war memorial at the point of Manhattan,
in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Another pride of Tertenia is the homonymous cheese factory, which produces an excellent cheese, well-known
in Italy and exported abroad.
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