The province of Nuoro is located in center of Sardinia and it extends throughout the coast of the island, with a surface of 7,044 km ²; of this one, 35% are occupied by mountains and 65% by hills and offer a peculiar natural atmosphere.
The artificial lakes with their fresh waters and their rich beach coasts, coves and cliffs, bathed by waters of intense a blue one give a touch of romanticism to the rustic panorama.
Many stalactite grottos and estalagmitas open their treasures the enthusiastic ones. In all the landscape the typical flora of the Mediterranean predominates, the olive groves and tunas. The geologic origin of some zones of the province goes back to the mesozóico and are of great calcáreas interest the formation pertaining to he himself period, greatest of Sardinia. The main resources are without a doubt some the natural atmosphere, that intact one is still almost all, one of the green lungs of the zone of the Mediterranean, and the agro-alimentary sector still together with to the local culture and the traditional methods of production and transformation.
The first tracks of human presence have been found near the grotto Corbeddu de Oliena with the 12,000 repertos that go back to a.C. In the province there are many testimonies of “the nuragica” time: “nuraghi” (typical prehistoric monuments of Sardinia), villages, sacred tombs of giants, wells. During the domination of Carthage and Rome, the inhabitants of the zone offered a tenacious resistance to the invaders; the Romans also constructed a center in Forum Traiani (the present Fordongianus, in the province of Oristano) to prevent the incursions of the Barbaricinis (the inhabitants of Barbagia).