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“Zeppara hill” rises within the town itself, a truly natural monument. We are talking about a rare geological formation, a basaltic bed that in Italy, can only be found in Veneto and Sicily and in the rest of the old continent, only in Iceland.
Similar monuments through out the rest of the planet can be admired exclusively in Patagonia and India.
Between the end of the Miocene and the beginning of the Pliocene, due to the intense underground disruptions of the Arcuentu and Mount Arci, a secondary volcanic opening was formed.
The magma, under strong pressure, slowly rose towards the crack passing through a narrow passage and quickly solidifying forming a shape called “organ pipes” due to the prismatic characteristic of the basalt and the high columns.
