Designations
Official name
Stagno di Molentargius
Designated14 December 1976
Reference no.133[1]
View towards the Molentargius salt mills.

Molentargius - Saline Regional Park (Italian: Parco naturale regionale Molentargius - Saline) is a regional park in Sardinia, Italy.[2] It was established in 1999 to protect and enhance a site of international interest, already included in the Ramsar Convention since 1977 because of its relevance to stopover, wintering, and nesting waterfowl bird species.

Molentargius, in Sardinian language, means "donkeys handlers" as salt extraction was the richest industry of the Cagliari area for millennia, the salt being transported by donkeys. The park is a wetland extending over an area of about 1600 hectares, surrounded by the urbanized areas of Cagliari and the other towns of the metropolitan area and the waterfront of Poetto Beach.

The uniqueness of this area is the presence of reservoirs of both freshwater and saltwater, separated by a plain characterized by prevailing aridity called Is Arenas ("The Sands"). Areas with fresh water are the Bellarosa Minore and Perdalonga ponds, which were created to expand rainwater tanks. Areas of saltwater ponds include the production system of the former Statal Saline of Cagliari, consisting of the Bellarosa Maggiore or Is Molentargius (water storage tank evaporation), the Pond of Quartu (second and third tanks evaporation), the other salting basins (saline of Cagliari).

Greater flamingos have been nesting in the park since 1993[3]

From 1850 to now, 230 bird species belonging to 53 families have been recorded in the Molentargius area.

References

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  1. ^ "Stagno di Molentargius". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Molentargius Saline Natural Park". Italia.it. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
  3. ^ In edicola con L'Unione Sarda torna Ilisso con "I protagonisti della Natura": il primo volume dedicato ai fenicotteri (in Italian), retrieved 15 June 2025
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Cagliari

western stretch of the strip between the beach and Saline di Molentargius ("Molentargius's Salt Mine"). Another smaller beach is that of Calamosca near

Sardinia

Parco del Sulcis Parco naturale regionale di Porto Conte Parco regionale Molentargius – Saline There are 60 wildlife reserves, 5 W.W.F oases, 25 natural monuments

Poetto

district located on the western stretch of the strip between the beach and Molentargius - Saline Regional Park. The name of the beach supposedly derives from

Golfo di Cagliari

important wetlands are the Stagni ("ponds") of Capoterra, Cagliari and Molentargius. Also notable is the archaeological site of Nora. De Muro, Sandro; Porta

Quartu Sant'Elena

Quartu has a long, shallow coastline. It also looks onto the pond of Molentargius, where flamingos and Sultan roosters nest. ‹ The template below (Historical

Selargius

demographics. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › Molentargius - Saline Regional Park Wikimedia Commons has media related to Selargius

Tourism in Sardinia

to 10,000 people. Numerous coastal ponds surround the city, like the Molentargius - Saline Regional Park, located between the urban area and Poetto Beach

List of Ramsar Sites

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