Nurra

Nurra (a name perhaps derived from Nure, an ancient Sardinian city of Roman times situated near lake Baratz and Porto Ferro) is a historical sub-region and a large agricultural plain in north-west Sardinia, located in the quadrilateral between 
Alghero, Sassari, Porto Torres and Stintino, between the Gulf of Asinara to the north-east, the Sardinian Sea to the west, the Riu Mannu to the east and the heights of Logudoro to the south-east.
It falls entirely within the Province of Sassari. 
The landscape of Nurra today appears generally bare, consisting largely of extensive pastures, Mediterranean maquis and garrigue; of the vast forests that covered the area until the nineteenth century, only sparse remnants of gallery forests along the valleys now remain. 
Nurra reveals important signs of the ancient Sardinian mining industry, with the villages and mines of Argentiera and Canaglia. 

(source: Wikipedia)