Monti

Monti has always been a border. In Roman times the limit between the lands answering to Olbia and those held by the rebel Balari ran through here; the Balari kept the mountains from Alà as far as what is now the territory of Perfugas, and the boundary followed the river Scorra-boe, where in the last century a stone was found bearing a clear Latin inscription. The border has stayed, though today it is a linguistic one: in most of the comune northern Logudorese is spoken, and in the eastern part Gallurese.

The fief was granted twice by two rival authorities: on the fifteenth of February 1412 by Guglielmo di Narbona, claimant to the Arborea succession, and again in 1420 by Alfonso V of Aragon, who confirmed the same grant to Pietro Defenu of Sassari. Later it became a barony of the Farina; when that family died out it returned to the crown and was absorbed into the barony of Silvas de intro, a stretch of the Montacuto so depopulated that in the eighteenth century Monti was its only real village. In the territory spreads the forest of Monte Olia, regional property since the early twentieth century, where deer, boar, mouflon and wild goats live. The station of Monti-Telti has been working since 1880 and was the terminus of a second railway to Tempio Pausania, closed in 1958.