The Ayermich Park is a 22 hectares oasis that was the property of a family of marquises until 1990. Don Ignazio Ayermich Ripoli, a botanist, starting in the mid-1800s, brought rare plants in the park.
It is made of a wood of oak trees, olive groves and locust trees dotted with natural pools, streams, waterfalls and ponds. There is a wide variety of orchids and, among the treed lanes, unusual shapes of vegetation, exotic plants like the majestic Cedar of Lebanon and of the Himalayas and ‘closer’ species, yet not common, like the Corsican Pine, fagus sylvatica, southern magnolia and taxus baccata.
Water is a recurring theme and life source of the park, running in abundance all year round, creating rivers that then fall, like the ‘cascata maggiore’ (big falls), one of the many attractions of the park.
The park guards the ruins of a XIII-century medieval castle whose main tower is of Spanish origin and was turned into a prison in the XVIII century, and some grottoes used as bomb shelters during the Second World War.
Laconi (OR) was the birthplace of Saint Ignazio. Here are the house he was born in and the museum dedicated to him. In the centre of town the XIX-century Palazzo Aymerich, the last residence of the marquises, is now home to the Museum of Prehistoric Sardinian Statues, with a rare and extensive collection of menhir from all over the island and various relics from the many pre-Nuragic megalithic necropolis that dot the Sarcidano region.
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