29/03/2016
CAPO TESTA IN SPRING (Remembering the visit of Gauss and Patti) .........We drove with Leo and Marzia to the northernmost tip of Sardinia, Capo Testa, a point jutting into the Mediterranean adjacent to the town of Santa Teresa. Parking the car at a trailhead, we set off on a wide, paved track through flowering bushes. Capo Testa is a protected natural area with a sizeable population of tortoises, and as we paused to take a photo, one of them ambled onto the path. We ascended to a spot overlooking a turquoise bay. Granite outcrops towered in front of us.
“This is where they quarried granite that was used for columns in Rome,” Leo told us. “They cut the rock up here at the top and then moved it down to the water to put it on some boats.”
After crested the ridge, we began picking our way down through the boulders, speculating on how tons of granite could be moved downhill using primitive methods. About halfway down the slope, a huge block of granite, perhaps fifteen feet on each side, lay in our path. It was girdled with an evenly spaced line of holes........http://adventureswithpatti.blogspot.it/search?updated-max=2014-05-18T13:35:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=4&by-date=false
