{"id":25625,"date":"2023-06-20T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/niala-woods\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:12:25","slug":"niala-woods","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/niala-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Niala Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Niala woods<strong> is an area in <strong>Ussassai<\/strong>, in the historical region of <strong>Ogliastra<\/strong>, in the province of <strong>Nuoro<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its colours and landscape, green and luxuriant, rich in water and recesses, it has been described as the \u201c<strong>enchanted wood<\/strong>\u201d.<br \/>\nThe wood borders with the area of the <strong>Montarbu state-owned forest<\/strong>, and represents an area immersed in nature between the <strong>holm oak forest<\/strong> and <strong>Mediterranean shrub<\/strong>, <strong>rivers<\/strong>, <strong>waterfalls<\/strong> and <strong>cascades<\/strong>. The best-known water areas include the <strong>natural pools of Tuvu Nieddu<\/strong>, where the water remains even in the warmest periods of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In springtime, along the paths crossing the woods, it is possible to observe the <strong>peonies flowering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A part of the wood is crossed by the old Sardinian railway lines, along which the <strong>Trenino Verde<\/strong> ran. It is still possible to observe the <strong>iron <em>Irtzioni<\/em><\/strong> railway bridge, also known as <strong>the San Girolamo bridge<\/strong>, dating back to the XIX century.<\/p>\n<p>Carrying on beyond the bridge is a stop-off point where there is a work by the Sardinian sculptor <strong>Pinuccio Sciola<\/strong>. The sculpture is known as the &#8220;<strong>palle<\/strong>&#8220;, recumbent rocky spheres near a spring and small lake. Still in this area are the <strong>rocky arches<\/strong> and <strong>karstic recesses<\/strong>. One of the <strong>Niala caves<\/strong> is known as the &#8220;cave<strong>\u00a0of the Madonna<\/strong>&#8220;, due to its shape with rocky protrusion internally which brings to mind the Madonna with Child.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Niala woods<\/strong> is part of the <strong>Sites of Community Importance<\/strong> (SCI) \u201c<strong>Monti del Gennargentu<\/strong>\u201d (ITB021103), regulated by the <strong>Rete Natura 2000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28182,"template":"","tipologia":[975],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-25625","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-bosco-en","categoria-naturalistic-asset","tematica-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Niala Woods - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/niala-woods\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niala Woods - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Niala woods is an area in Ussassai, in the historical region of Ogliastra, in the province of Nuoro. 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