The area of Tempio Pausania tells a very ancient story that draws its origins since the neolithic age as the megalithic circles witness, as well as the dolmens, the nuraghis still nowadays preserved and viewable in the whole surrounding area.

Thanks to a very rich land in resources Tempio Pausania ever since its birth is the guide-town and the reference point of the whole  Gallura inner land.

The name of the town is "Templum" and has been found out for the first time in a church document dated of 1173 to mean "cliff, slope".

That hypothesis would place the height with the cathedral of that town at a higher quote in relation to the living centre.

Pausania instead seem to draw its origin from the Pasana place, the small centre close to the Olbia town, the seat of the ancient diocese. 

In 1300 the town of Tempio is shown by the name of Villa Templi as a country centre of Giudicato of Gallura.

In 1506, thanks to the joint of two dioceses of Civita and Ampurias, Tempio becomes the seat of bishop who places it both from a political and religious point of view on the first level.

The leadership of Tempio Pausania goes on in 17th century by the institution of High schools of Scolopi Fathers. 

In 1837 the king Carlo Alberto from Savoy gives Tempio, as the head town of a very wide province and the seat of a Prefecture, the honours of Municipium and the administrative dignity of town.

At the beginning of 1900 you registers a strong augmentation of population due to the progressive abandonment of "Stazzi" (agricultural buildings) towards the town with a unprecedented building growth.

Nowadays Tempio Pausania is undoubtedly one of the most industrialized nucleus of the islands, a very well known centre of handicraft and industrial working of prime matters such as granite, cork and wine .