The name is three letters long, and has changed little: in the Condaghe of Santa Maria di Bonarcado, the abbey's register, it reads Lee; through the centuries of the judicates and then of the Spanish it becomes Ley; today it is Lei. The village stands on a line of hills at five hundred metres, among protonuraghi, nuraghi and giants' tombs.
It belonged to the judicate of Torres, in the curatoria of the Marghine; when the judicate fell in 1259 it passed briefly to Arborea and to the marquisate of Oristano, and with the final defeat of the Arborean side, in 1478, to the Aragonese, who put it in the incontrada of the Marghine. In the eighteenth century it was a fief of the Pimentel and then of the Tellez-Giron, and it was redeemed in 1839. The station is on the Macomer-Nuoro line.
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