Peak La Marmora (Perdas Carpìas in Sardinian language), with its 1,834 meters, is the highest peak in Sardinia. It is located in the Gennargentu Massif, in the administrative territory of the municipalities of Arzana and Desulo.
The peak is named after the general and scientist Alberto Ferrero della Marmora, who described the Island in two scientific-literary 1 works; Voyage en Sardaigne, from 1826 and Itinéraire de l'île de Sardaigne, from 1860. The toponym of the mountain, in the Sardinian language, was Perdas Carpìas which means broken stones, due to the schistose nature of its rocks which tend to crumble.
The rocks that form the mountain, predominantly schists, are metamorphic in nature and date back to the Paleozoic era, when the Hercynian orogeny began.
The peak is rounded and bare, but the slopes are partially covered by a particular herbaceous and shrubby vegetation, markedly conditioned by the unfavorable climatic characteristics. On the western slope, in the locality of Su Sùssiu (or S'Issùssiu, which in the local dialect means the ravine), a small forest of millenary yews (Taxus baccata) grows.
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