Gairo

For the first time named in official documents in 1217, the City of Gairo is the only one of the Tacchi d'Ogliastra to boast a strip of the sea, with Marina di Gairo, where they lie untouched beaches, as the beach and Baccu Pratais, beach On Sirboni, Cala e Luas and the pink rocks and the picturesque beach of dark stones called Coccorrocci.
Several hypotheses about the origin of the name: the Phoenician Iaar (forest), the greek Kamos (stamen, warping, wool yarn) or GHEO (land and reo = skim, then land flowing).
In 1951 a flood, the most imposing of the above, involved the transfer of the population badly affected by that event, the native country of the new one, and today the village of Gairo Vecchio is a tourist stop as it preserves the characteristic structure of the typical villages of 'Ogliastra.
The whole territory has preserved many traces of prenuragic age (2500-800 BC) and nuragica (1800-238 BC), the latter evidenced by the presence of villages Is Tostoinus and Perdu Isu.
Destination for lovers of hiking, Gairo offers countless routes and walks in mountain areas that wind through virgin forests and rich wildlife.
Taquisara, a small village of Gairo which is about eight kilometers, is one of the most fascinating stages of the Green Train of Sardinia who arrive here after crossing places and glimpses of strong suggestion, ready to leave for a tour that travelers and tourists more careful They know not to be missed.