In Luras the patriarch of the millenarian oliasters of Europe

Luras boasts the patriarch of the millenarian oliasters of Europe, not only of Sardinia: the people of the place have renamed it S’Ozzastru, that means the Oliaster par excellence. It is not an exaggeration, since the botanists think it is more than three thousand years old: a supremacy that allows it to hold the supremacy of the most ancient tree of Italy, according to the estimate of the Department of Agriculture. In locality Santu Baltòlu, it is possible to find some other ancient trees, a little younger but equally beautiful.

The territories of Aggius (as for example the Park Capitza), Calangianus and Tempio Pausania are characterized by forests of evergreen oaks and corks (Quercus suber L.) that, in good part, survived to the destructive fury of the summery fires recorded in the last few decades. In these zones is extracted the cork, that employs hundreds of people.