He absolutely didn't want to cut down those pine trees on his land, so Domenico Congiu decided to give them a new life, "transforming" them into the Giants of Mont'e Prama. It happened in Quartu , on a plot of land near the Molentargius park.
It all started when a few months ago, Congiu began to notice that the trees didn't seem very stable. "I got worried," he says, "because they were leaning toward the road and looked like they might fall." So, "I applied to the municipality to cut them down, and they told me I needed to contact an agronomist." After an inspection, "reluctantly, the answer was that I really had to cut them down. So we did."
After the work, Congiu continues, "I realized that four giant 2.5-meter trunks were still there, and I had an idea." Armed with all the necessary equipment, he worked the wood, giving it an identity, and creating the faces of the four hikers from Mont'e Prama . "They've always fascinated me. It was something that happened by chance, but it made me happy to be able to give new life to those trees we were forced to cut down." So now those four faces carved into the wood have become the area's attraction. "Lots of people stop to look at them," Congiu continues, "and when I'm there on the land, they ask me for information, and I tell them the story of these trees that were certainly destined to die, but now live again in a different way."