Bono has 3,636 inhabitants in the Goceano, at the foot of Monte Rasu, and its name is a medical certificate. The people used to live lower down, in the valley of the Tirso, in a village called Lorthia; malaria and outbreaks of plague emptied it, and the survivors climbed back up to more than five hundred metres, onto the wooded slopes of the mountain. To celebrate the good air and the clean springs they called the place Bidda Sana, healthy village, then Bono Loco, good place, and in the end simply Bono.
Of the village down below there remain the little country churches scattered along the river, which stand exactly where Lorthia was. On the north-western slopes of Monte Rasu, at around a thousand metres, is Sos Nibberos: the largest yew wood in Italy, a natural monument since 1994, where some thousand-year-old yews reach sixteen metres in height and are more than a metre across. And from Bono came Giovanni Maria Angioy, the man who led the Sardinian anti-feudal revolt.
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