What: Baratz Lake
Province: Sassari
Sub-region: Nurra
Commune: Alghero
To arrive: we leave Alghero and we reach Fertilia.
We exceed Fertilia in direction of S. Maria la Palma that is approximately 7 km. away.
Passing to the West of the hamlet of S. Maria la Palma it arrives to the Baratz lake (or Bartxa) after approximately 7 km .
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The lake is situated in a beautiful place and is encircled by a wonderful wood of pines and Mediterranean spot (where the coot and the royal wild duck nest).
It is the only natural lake of the Sardinia; the vegetation around is characterized from ilexes, Mediterranean spot and some isolated dwarf-palm; on the rivers it dominates the viscous enula with the the reed and the tamarisk.