Orthulle: Passo Ghenna Silana
The landscape around Passo Ghenna Silana is a high limestone upland of the Supramonte, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. At 1,017 metres, the pass lies on Sardinia’s SS 125 Orientale Sarda, on the route between Dorgali and Baunei. The road crosses rugged karst terrain of pale rock, Mediterranean scrub and sharply folded slopes, near the descent towards Gorropu Gorge, carved by the Flumineddu River. Rainwater has dissolved the limestone over long periods, forming ravines, caves and exposed escarpments. The pass belongs to Sardinia’s pastoral interior, where grazing, small upland settlements and the road linking the coast with the island’s interior have long shared the same demanding ground.
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The limestone Supramonte defines the setting of Orthulle, known in Italian as Urzulei — a compact inland settlement shaped by the rugged terrain of central-eastern Sardinia. Its municipal territory extends into the Supramonte, a karst region of pale rock, ravines and remote grazing land. The Flumineddu River has carved the nearby Gola su Gorropu, a deep gorge shared by the territories of Urzulei and Orgosolo. Sheep and goat pastoralism remains central to local identity, continuing Sardinia’s longstanding cheese-making traditions. Orthulle presents a side of the island far removed from the coast. Move on to other webcams in Sardinia to compare landscapes and settlements around the island.
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