The granite in its strange and bizarre forms can be seen especially in the Piana dei Grandi Massi, also known as Valle della Luna, at Li Parisi. A fascinating place of profound silence. These granite boulders, dating back to the glaciations of the Quaternary period, have been rounded and worked by erosion, ending up with an unusual, bizarre appearance, reminiscent of a lunar landscape, or particular shapes similar to animal figures and human face profiles, an environment in which the most significant traces of the first human settlements can be found. Rock shelters, caves, tafoni or hollows, megalithic circles presumably belonging to the ‘Culture of Arzachena’ in the areas of ‘Pitrischeddu’, ‘Paramuru’, ‘La Ciacca’, ‘Salvagnolu’ and ‘Pianu’, the pre-Nuragic villages of ‘Boda’ and ‘li Parisi’; used in the Neolithic period by the first inhabitants as shelter, burial or places of worship and, gradually, until recent times, by shepherds. In the valley, it is possible to visit one of the most imposing and best-preserved nuragic structures in the whole of Sardinia: the Nuraghe Izzana. Imposing and majestic, located in the Finosa locality, in a good state of preservation, it is famous for its tholos and its triangular base.
