{"id":29853,"date":"2023-08-18T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/limestone-coast-of-nebida-and-masua\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:13:22","slug":"limestone-coast-of-nebida-and-masua","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/limestone-coast-of-nebida-and-masua\/","title":{"rendered":"Limestone Coast of Nebida and Masua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This stretch of coastline in <strong>south-western Sardinia<\/strong>, extending for around 10 kilometres, includes most of the island\u2019s key elements of <strong>coastal morphology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here we can observe <strong>limestone cliffs from the Paleozoic era<\/strong>, <strong>sandy<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> pebble <strong>beaches<\/strong>, schist outcrops <strong>from the Cambrian era<\/strong> and the complex of red-purplish <strong>pudding stones<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>from the Ordovician period <\/strong>(sedimentary rocks).<\/p>\n<p>It has an uneven pattern, falling within the area of the municipality of <strong>Iglesias<\/strong>\u00a0and its <strong>hamlets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>fauna<\/strong> in the area is particularly interesting thanks to the presence of <strong>numerous bird species<\/strong>\u00a0protected under the <em>habitat<\/em> directive, such as the <strong>Peregrine falcon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the <strong>flora<\/strong> is concerned, we can see <strong>plant formations which are unique<\/strong> throughout Europe, some of them <strong>endemic to Sardinia<\/strong>. The various species include the <strong>sea lavender<\/strong>, <strong>sea fennel<\/strong> and <strong>broom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This high level of <strong>biodiversity<\/strong> means the area has an excellent <strong>environmental quality<\/strong> from a European point of view. This stretch of coastline is also of significant <strong>historical and landscape importance<\/strong>, due to the beauty of its coastlines, with <strong>cliffs<\/strong> plummeting into the sea and different size <strong>islands<\/strong> (e.g. the <strong>Pan di Zucchero<\/strong>) behind it, and the delightful <strong>old mines<\/strong> spread across the entire area.<\/p>\n<p>In the area further north of the coast, you\u2019ll find the <strong>Natural Monument<\/strong> \u201c<strong>Canal Grande di Nebida<\/strong>\u201d. This is a <strong>small valley<\/strong> opening up onto the sea in the cliff. The valley is carved out of <strong>schist<\/strong> and <strong>sandstone<\/strong> from the <strong>Cambrian era<\/strong>, which have layers of rock deposited almost vertically, by the <strong>tectonic events of the Variscan orogeny<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe key point of attraction is a <strong>natural cavern<\/strong> called <strong>Grotta del Canal Grande<\/strong> (or<strong> Spigole<\/strong>). The partly submerged <strong>cave<\/strong> has two access points from the sea and by land. It is 150 metres long, about 30 metres high and 5 metres wide. Today, the <strong>Grotta del Canal Grande<\/strong> is the only cave in Sardinia, <strong>carved out of Cambrian schist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Heading northwards from the south, there are a number of small coves. The first is <strong>Porto Raffa<\/strong> with a sandy shore enclosed between the high schistose coastline. <strong>Porto Banda<\/strong> is the next town after Nebida. This is a small beach extending for around 100 metres, with <strong>dark pebbles and shingle<\/strong>, at the bottom of a very narrow inlet and natural opening of a valley. Continuing on,\u00a0we come to <strong>Porto Ferro<\/strong>, a small inlet, difficult to reach, at the end of a long and panoramic route and only accessible with four-wheel-drive vehicles. In the promontory of the same name, we find <strong>Porto Corallo<\/strong>, a small port and shelter for fishing boats, with purple coloured limestone rocks. Opposite the old mining centre, we find the beach of <strong>Porto Masua<\/strong>. A wide, multi-coloured gravel beach huddled in between the rocks, where the remains of old mining buildings can be found, and which are easily accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The area is part of the\u00a0<strong>Sites of Community Importance<\/strong> (SIC) \u201c<strong>Costa di Nebida<\/strong>\u201d (ITB040029), regulated by the <strong>Rete Natura 2000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8346,"template":"","tipologia":[976],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-29853","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-area-di-interesse-naturalistico-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>Limestone Coast of Nebida and Masua - 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\/place\/limestone-coast-of-nebida-and-masua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Limestone Coast of Nebida and Masua - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This stretch of coastline in south-western Sardinia, extending for around 10 kilometres, includes most of the island\u2019s key elements of coastal morphology. 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