Rare example of perfect harmony between mountains and sea, it is set in a valley placed at the slopes of Mount Giuilea, marked to the west by the plateaus of Taccu Mannu and of Tacchixeddu, while to the east by the schist-granitic chain of Serramari. Halfway between the village and the wonderful Marina di Tertenia, Mount Ferru is the ideal place for long walks outiside in search of the local flora and fauna, where, sometimes, you will be able to sight the golden eagle or the rare Bonelli's eagle.
Once you have passed Mount Ferru, Marina di Tertenia, one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated shores of Sardinia, opens wide in front of you: twelve kilometres of white and fine sand alternate with red porphyd reefs. Shaped as an amphitheatre, you will find one after the other: Foxi Manna and its transparent seabed, Barisoni, where the water is blue and green and Melisenda beach, a stretch of sand dominated by the XVIIIth century S. Giovanni tower.
Pride of Tertenia is being the place of origin of Albino Manca, a sculptor who in the thirties passed the Ocean and managed to make a name for himself in the exclusive world of art in New York. The main square of the village contains a small bronze model of the gigantic eagle placed as a war memorial at the point of Manhattan, in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Another pride of Tertenia is the homonymous cheese factory, which produces an excellent cheese, well-known in Italy and exported abroad.
USEFUL NUMBERS
Municipality: 0782 9080
Pharmacy: 0782 93853
Tourist information: 0782 92011
Police: 0782 93822
