Lanusei (NU)
Latitude: 39.8807
Longitude: 9.5413
Population: 5299
Area: 53,17
Density: 99,66
Lanusei, a small town in the province of Nuoro in Ogliastra.
The historical evidence relating to the first village dates back to the 12th century. The only ecclesiastical documentation in which the Ogliastra center is mentioned dates back to this period.
The life of the village dates back to several centuries ago, being the area inhabited since the prehistoric period.
Lanusei is a center with an agricultural vocation as well as being a renowned tourist resort both for the sea and for the mountain holidays with numerous hiking opportunities on the peaks that surround it.
In the center of the town is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Maddalena in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele.
They have been known since the 16th century. It has recently been renovated.
In the cathedral the squares of the painter Mario Delitala are exhibited, to whom the artistic high school is dedicated.
In the inhabited center there are several fountains that once served the daily supply of the inhabitants of the districts, some of which are:
Funtanedda at Niu Jossu, located near the railway bridge (su ponti de funtanedda);
Su Au to Niu Susu;
Pelandrìa in Barigau;
Mesu 'Idda in the homonymous locality;
On the heights of the inhabited area extends the municipal forest of Seleni, reachable in about 6 km along the state road 198 for Gairo, at the edge of which tourist settlements intensify, in a suggestive position in the heart of the wood there is a of various huts of a village and two Giants' tombs, positioned 80 meters from each other, whose dating varies between Middle and Final Bronze (XV-XII century BC)
