At the exit of the Tortolì town there is the San Salvatore park.
It's not really a natural park, but a tourist village where you can admire ancient nuragic buildings dating back to the prehistoric age. Nuraghi are tower-shaped buildings that date back to 2000 years BC and had both defensive and residential purposes.. Their name derives from the primitive local language which indicated with Nur the piles of hollow-shaped stones.
In addition to these wonderful architectures, rigorously unique in their kind except in Sardinia, there are also tombs and menhir monoliths, dating back thousands of years.
Not really in Tortolì, but quite close there is the Gennargentù National Park.
This is a vast protected territory and does not only concern marine areas but also the hinterland, which is often underestimated in Sardinia.
Here you will find numerous species of animals and plants, typical of the Mediterranean scrub and forests on the mountain ridges of the only mountainous complex on the island.
