
Capoterra is one of the Sardinian town councils that, in the last 10 years, had one of the highest population increases in the island and a considerable transformation of town planning. Now it is identified by a set of inhabited settlements distributed in three different localities, about five kilometers apart. The first urban site, the oldest one, was developed from a seventeenth-century village and lies at the foot of the hills of Montarbu, Punta Sa Loriga and Mount Arrubiu.
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Among the upland plains and hills in the fertile Marmilla plain, marked by the Rio Mannu (torrent) most impressive is the upland plain called Giara of Gesturi. It is the wider one of the area, with an extension of about 45 Km square, raising up from the surrounding plain in a sort of natural monolitic fortress for about 500 mt. height. It is constituted by basaltic rock with volcanic origins and covered by all the typical species of the Mediterranean flora .... (continues)..