Orosei

Orosei sits two kilometers from the coast in the alluvial valley of the Cedrino, the eighty-kilometer river that empties into the sea just below the town. The Gulf of Orosei takes its name from the village and runs south along forty kilometers of limestone cliffs to Capo Monte Santo; its southern coves, Cala Luna, Cala Goloritzè, Cala Mariolu, are reached only by boat from Cala Gonone. The town itself records twenty-seven historical churches; thirteen still stand.

The parish church of San Giacomo Apostolo, the patron, rises on a wide stair above Piazza del Popolo in white Baroque eighteenth-century façade. The Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate, built in volcanic stone in two phases across the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on a Romanesque base, sits inside a medieval complex with a Pisan tower and a ring of cumbessias. Nearby stands Sa Prejonevetza, the surviving tower of a castle once enclosed by walls, later used as a prison and still known by that name.