{"id":29632,"date":"2023-08-03T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/spiaggia-di-punta-molentis\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:06:26","slug":"spiaggia-di-punta-molentis","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/spiaggia-di-punta-molentis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiaggia di Punta Molentis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>beach of Punta Molentis<\/strong> can be found in <strong>Villasimius<\/strong>, in the southeast of Sardinia and falls within the <strong>Protected Marine Area of Capo Carbonara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Punta Molentis<\/strong> is a <strong>small peninsula<\/strong> which encloses a beach extending for around <strong>100 metres<\/strong>, protected against coastal storms.<br \/>\nThe <strong>sandy shore<\/strong> consists of <strong>mid-fine clear sand<\/strong> with a <strong>low sandy seabed\u00a0<\/strong>which gradually reduces.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>small wetland<\/strong> often forms behind the beach caused by the water from the coastal storm waves, which remains entrapped between the beach and a deposit of <strong>quarry rocks<\/strong>, placed there in the past to protect the point.<\/p>\n<p>The promontory of <strong>granite rock<\/strong>\u00a0is home to <strong>bushes<\/strong> of Mediterranean coastal essences which provide a <em><strong>habitat<\/strong><\/em> to <strong>rabbits<\/strong> and <strong>marine birds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the most external side of the promontory, we find the ruins of an <strong>old granite quarry<\/strong>. The name of the beach is linked to this former activity, indeed \u201c<em><strong>su molenti<\/strong><\/em>\u201d in Sardinian means <strong>donkey<\/strong>. These animals were used to <strong>transport the material<\/strong> extracted from the <strong>granite quarry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the beach, on a hillside standing around 100 m a.s.l. we find the remains of a <strong>Nuraghe<\/strong> overlooking the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The beach is equipped with a <strong>restaurant<\/strong> and <strong>bathing facilities<\/strong> and in the summer is subject to <strong>a limited number of 500 users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As well as falling within the Protected Marine Area, it is also part of the <strong>Site of Community Importance<\/strong> (SCI) \u201c<strong>Isola dei Cavoli, Serpentara, Punta Molentis e Campulongu<\/strong>\u201d regulated by the <strong>Rete Natura 2000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28005,"template":"","tipologia":[988],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-29632","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-spiaggia-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>Spiaggia di Punta Molentis - 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\/spiaggia-di-punta-molentis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spiaggia di Punta Molentis - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The beach of Punta Molentis can be found in Villasimius, in the southeast of Sardinia and falls within the Protected Marine Area of Capo Carbonara. 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