Lotzorai is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Ogliastra

Province of Ogliastra

Ogliastra is a province in eastern Sardinia, Italy. Ogliastra is the most mountainous province in Sardinia. With only some 58,000 inhabitants, it is also the least populous province of Italy. It corresponds roughly to the medieval Giudicato of Agugliastra...

 in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

, located about 100 km northeast of Cagliari

Cagliari

Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...

 and about 4 km northeast of Tortolì

Tortolì

Tortolì is a town and comune in Sardinia, co-capital of the Province of Ogliastra with Lanusei.-Geography:Tortolì is situated on the eastern coast of Sardinia. Its port and greatest hamlet is Arbatax, who has also an airport connecting it to continental Italy and the European continent...

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Lotzorai borders the following municipalities: Baunei

Baunei

Baunei is a comune in the Province of Ogliastra in the Italian island of Sardinia.-Geography:The municipality of Baunei is located about 100 km northeast of Cagliari and about 11 km north of Tortolì...

, Girasole

Girasole

Girasole is a comune in the Province of Ogliastra in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 90 km northeast of Cagliari and about 2 km northeast of Tortolì. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,020 and an area of 13.0 km².Girasole borders the following...

, Talana

Talana

Talana is a town and comune in the province of Ogliastra, Sardinia, Italy. The town is located above a valley, at an altitude of almost 700 meters. The area has been occupied since the Bronze Age, with many nuraghes nearby. It was part of the Giudicato of Cagliari in medieval times. There is a...

, Tortolì

Tortolì

Tortolì is a town and comune in Sardinia, co-capital of the Province of Ogliastra with Lanusei.-Geography:Tortolì is situated on the eastern coast of Sardinia. Its port and greatest hamlet is Arbatax, who has also an airport connecting it to continental Italy and the European continent...

, Triei

Triei

Triei is a comune of c. 1,000 inhabitants in the province of Ogliastra in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 100 km northeast of Cagliari and about 11 km north of Tortolì....

, Villagrande Strisaili

Villagrande Strisaili

Villagrande Strisaili is a comune in the Province of Ogliastra in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 150 km northeast of Cagliari and about 18 km northwest of Tortolì...

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The town's economy is based on agriculture and tourism. Lotzorai's territory is home to several walks, including those to Cala Goloritzè and the Gole su Gorroppu Lotzorai, while the Selvaggio Blu starts 3 km from Lotzorai in Santa Maria Navarrese. Other sights include a pre-Nuragic

Nuragic civilization

The Nuragic civilization was a civilization of Sardinia, lasting from the Bronze Age to the 2nd century AD. The name derives from its most characteristic monuments, the nuraghe. They consist of tower-fortresses, built starting from about 1800 BC...

 necropolis with thirteen Domus de Janas

Domus de Janas

Domus de Janas are a type of pre-historic chamber tombs found in the Mediterranean area, but typically in Sardinia. They consist of several chambers quarried out by the Ozieri and Beaker cultures, resembling houses in their layout.Built between 3400 and 2700 BC, more than 1000 of the rock-cut...

, the Medusa Castle (a medieval fortress built over a pre-existing Phoenician structure, now in ruins) and other pre-Nuragic and Nuragic excavations.