It is believed that the name Baunei derives from the Greek Bainos, meaning furnace for smelting metals or baking calcareous rocks to make lime. The territory of Baunei, a splendid combination of sea and mountains, is very interesting from a coastal point of view, with its 40 km of limestone bastions and cliffs dotted with little coves, from Santa Maria Navarrese to Cala Luna. Leaving from the south the most renowned spots are: The stone peak of Pedra Longa, Capo Montesanto, Portu Quau, Cala Biriala, Cala Goloritze, Cala Mariolu, Cala Sisine and Cala Luna.

Baunei’s territory is extremely interesting from many points of view: naturalistic and environmental (karstic valleys, a basalt plateau in Golgo with Su Sterru, Europe’s deepest abyss, Margine, also a karstic plateau, and a coast with the highest cliffs of the Mediterranean Sea), faunistic(several first class species such as the golden eagle, Eleonora’s falcon, Bonelli’s eagle, the Corsican seagull, the moufflon, the hawk, the peregrine falcon, etc), speleological (numerous grottoes and chasms situated both above and below sea level in the hinterland just behind the coast), historical (vestiges of the past covering all major ages, anthropozoic deposits, villages, fortresses and giants’ tombs from the pre-Nuragic and Nuragic periods, settlements and coins from the imperial and republican phases of Roman history, the medieval churches of Santa Maria Navarrese and Eltili, the tower and the church of Golgo, all built under the Spanish domination and part of the parish church of Baunei dating back to the times of the Savoy rule).

For free-climbing enthusiasts the numerous recently equipped cliffs offer various opportunities to climb in a unique and wild place among rocky peaks, sheer cliffs overhanging the sea and breathtaking scenery.

Local gastronomy: spit roasts of goat meat and sucking pig; local sweets amaretti and su cunfettu and cheeses made of goat’s milk.