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Monte Nieddu (Montiniéddu) with the Greater Tip catches up the m 971, to the extremity of the granitico complex of Mounts of Alà; from it begins the only real mountain chain of Sardinia, that it comes down cross-sectionally until to north of Oristano forming a shape of division between the North and the South of the island.

This is one sub region between most hard and isolated of the island, of fascinating interest. One still founds great woods of leccio and sughero able spots to accommodate mammals and rapaci.

In past, end nearly to the end of the 1800's, before that the trees were reduced in coal from Tuscany's woodman, it was celebre for its almost impenetrable forests, constituted from secular forests of lecci, junipers and other arboreal essences.

On the mountain was present also the Tasso (Baccata Taxus) that it formed of real forests. The Tasso, that it is known grossly like " tree of the dead women", because it secretes a strongly toxic essence, produces a very hard and excellent wood and therefore was used in the zone of Saint Teodoro for the realisation of furnishings.

Currently on the mountain, to some hundred of meters from the summit, one founds a property left at death one of the ancient forest: Tasso trees survivors are by now little, sufficient however to give usan idea of the exceptional arboreal patrimony of the massive one of the Montiniéddu.