The Flumendosa Trails

The landscape here is rugged and uneven. Plateaus and hills drop into deep valleys carved by streams that feed into the Flumendosa River. Since ancient times, the river has marked the boundary between the village and the vast surrounding forests, areas once vital for grazing livestock, big-game hunting, and producing charcoal. This countryside is home to a rich variety of plants: holm oaks, strawberry trees, wild olive shrubs, and arbutus trees paint the land in deep greens, while the typical Mediterranean scrub adds its own fragrant notes.

As you follow the river upstream, you enter the grand forests of the Murdega region, some of the largest in all of Gerrei. Walking the forest trails, you’ll still come across the remains of countless charcoal platforms, silent reminders of the sawyers and charcoal burners who once worked here. Nearby lie the ruins of the Sa Lilla Mine, active from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, where galena and sphalerite (blende) were extracted.