Arbus (Sardinia)

Infobox CityIT
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official_name = Arbus
name = Arbus
region = Sardinia
province = Province of Medio Campidano (MD)
elevation_m = 314
area_total_km2 = 267.0
population_as_of = Dec. 2004
population_total = 6895
population_density_km2 = 26
timezone = CET, UTC+1
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frazioni = Montevecchio, Ingurtosu, S.Antonio di Santadi
telephone = 070
postalcode = 09031
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The municipality of Arbus contains the "frazioni" (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Montevecchio, Ingurtosu, and S.Antonio di Santadi.

Arbus borders the following municipalities: Fluminimaggiore, Gonnosfanadiga, Guspini, Terralba.

The territory

The territory of Arbus municipality, which extends for 26,716 hectares, is one the widest in Sardinia, (the second after Sassari)and in Italy.Situated on south west coast, it forms the far south of the ooulf of Oristano, along with Capo Frasca.Coast extens from the peninsula Capo frasca to Capo Pecora.It includes a mountain district which separates Medio Campidano from the sea.

In geology the territory of Arbus is know as batolite ercinico Arburese, a sort of geological formation.is has been inhabited by man since ancie Neolitic.You can visit numerous Tombe dei Giganti ( Giant graves) in the district of Capo Pecora, and in other areas of territory.

The coast

For two consecutive years (2002/2003) Arbus Municipality as been awarded tre prize "5 sails" by Legambiente and Touring Club for its outstanding natural beauty and for the history and culture of is therritory.Thanks to this prestigious award Arbus is the limelight in Italy and abroad.The prize "5 sail" recognition received only by ten municipalities all over Italy, points out the effort of this municipal administration to pursue a policy of territory preservation aiming at providing facilities for tourist, including the disabled, without spoiling an uncontaminated and upolluted coast.Know as Costa Verde, it has been proclaimed a place of remarkable public interest and subjected to landscape preservation through D.M. 27 August 1980.

The main peculiarity of this coast, is the wide sand shapes imposing dunes reproducing authentic desert landscape, intercalated here and there by the typical maditerranean vegetation, brightened in spring by vivid chromatics tones. Great aesthetic importance takes on the contraste between the beaches made of sand, now withe and very thin now golden and granulous, and the turquoise green, the deep blue sea, the imposing granitic formations and the luxuriant mediterranean bush. in the Arburese Coast they are the natural resources which have got European recognition: PISCINAS DUNES, one the widest duny sistem in Europe, and the Sardinian deer (cervus elaphus corsicanus)

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