The forest of thousand-year-old holm oaks
Around Talana stretch forests of holm oak — the evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean — that reach extraordinary ages, with some estimated at over a thousand years. These silent giants form a continuous canopy that filters the light and creates unique microclimates, sheltering mouflons, stone martens and birds of prey. Walking among these enormous trees is an almost mystical experience: the twisted trunks covered in lichens look like natural sculptures, witnesses of a wild and primordial Sardinia that has never surrendered to modernity.
