Monti (

Gallurese Gallurese () is a Romance languages, Romance dialect of the Italo-Dalmatian languages, Italo-Dalmatian family spoken in the region of Gallura, northeastern Sardinia. Gallurese is variously described as a distinct southern dialect of Corsican lang ...

: ''Mònti'', ) is a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' and small town of

Gallura Gallura ( or ; ) is a region in North-Eastern Sardinia, Italy. The name ''Gallùra'' is allegedly supposed to mean "stony area". Geography Gallùra has an area of . It is from the Italian peninsula and from the French island of Corsica. ...

, northern

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

, in the

province of Sassari The province of Sassari (; ; ; ; ) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital was the city of Sassari. On 1 April 2025, the province was suppressed in favor of the new Metropolitan City of Sassari, which corres ...

. The town is surrounded by the

cork oak ''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris, ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork (material), cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, ...

forests and

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which form the twin bases of its economy. The

vermentino Vermentino is a light-skinned wine grape variety, primarily found in Italian wine. It is widely planted in both Sardinia and Liguria, to some extent in Corsica, in Piedmont under the name Favorita, and in increasing amounts in Languedoc-Roussillo ...

grape, once known as "arratelau", has been cultivated here since the 14th century. In 1996 its Vermentino di Gallura

wine Wine is an alcoholic drink made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented fruit. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made f ...

was awarded

DOCG The following four classification of wine, classifications of wine constitute the Italy, Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine: * ''Denominazione di origine'' (DO, rarely used; ; 'designation of origin'); * ''Indicazione ...

status. Monti borders on the following communes: * Alà dei Sardi *

Berchidda Berchidda (; ; ) is an communes of Italy, Italian commune in the province of Sassari, region and island of Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about southwest of Olbia. It is located near Lake Coghinas in a hilly area bordered on the ...

* Calangianus *

Loiri Porto San Paolo Loiri Porto San Paolo (Gallurese: ''Lòiri–Poltu Santu Paulu'', ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about south of Olbia. The administrative centre is ...

Olbia Olbia (, ; ; ) is a city and communes of Italy, commune of 61,000 inhabitants in the Italy, Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle ...

* Telti * Su Canal

Noted Person

* Elvira Curci (1900–1984) - actress: known for: ''

The Case Against Mrs. Ames ''The Case Against Mrs. Ames'' is a 1936 American mystery drama film written by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne based on a serial of the same name by Arthur Somers Roche originally published in '' Collier's Weekly'' magazine in 1934, and then ...

''; '' Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond'',('Earthquake', 1959)

References

* http://www.comunas.it/monti/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20060814213501/http://www.comune.monti.ss.it/utente/index.asp * http://demo.istat.it/ * http://www.comuni-italiani.it/090/041/ Wine regions of Italy Cities and towns in Sardinia {{Sardinia-geo-stub