maybe the only thing you have heard of Sardinia is his fabulous Costa Smeralda, Emerald Coast, who takes his name from the color of the water that descends on his beaches with white sand.But there is much more in the injured Mediterranean island than this sbaritic paradise.
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Best period
In Sardinia, the weather is good everywhere in April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November
The best months to go to Cagliari are March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November
On average, the hottest months in Cagliari are July and August, and the coldest months are January and February
The cities with the best climate are Cagliari, Olbia, Porto Cervo, San Teodoro, Arzachena, Carbonia, Carloforte, Macomer, Muravera and Pula, with a good time at least 9 months a year
The best months for swimming in Cagliari are June, July, August, September and October
Tourist Attractions
No matter how attractive is the occupied fishing city, with its pastel houses that climb the hill, it pales compared to the medi village of the walls above.At the top is a 12th-century castle, with a good museum, which explores the local craft specialty for the manufacture of baskets.The peak views extend in both directions along the coast and to Corsica.The dome, located in the small market below, has one of the best altars in Sardinia, dating from the fifteenth century, together with fine wooden sculptures in the choir and a crypt.His bell tower began life as a lighthouse
Do not be surprised if the language you hear around you in this lively city on the coast sounds a little different - almost like Spanish.It is, and it is possible to find some signs and labels in Spanish.A pope from the fourteenth century gave Sardinia to King Aragon, hoping to snatch the island from Pisa and Genova.The Liturgy in the Church of San Francesco is still said in Catalan and you should visit it to see the graceful 13th century monastery, which has arrived through the left side of the altar.As the afternoon fades in the evening, one of the popular things to do is climb the walls built by the Spaniards to protect against the sea attack and join the locals for an evening promenade along their wide bastions, to look at the sunset over the Mediterranean.The old city and the beautiful Capo Caccia, Villa Las Tronas Hotel SPA was a favorite refuge of the Royal Savoy family, and the services and accommodations are still suitable for a king
The ferries regularly leave the small Palau port for half an hour to Maddalena, the only city in the archipelago in the Bonifacio Strait, between Sardinia and Corsica.Apart from the beaches, of which the most distant are accessible only by boat, the tourists come here to cross the road and bridge to the neighboring island.The other end of the island has several beaches, easy to find on paths leading from a single road.The sea around the islands is popular among the sailors
Starting with the 9th century BC, Bosa has overlooked the mouth of the only waterway in Sardinia, in a valley that is today green with farms.A mess of medi streets snakes from the old stone bridge and pastel buildings that turn on the river bank to Malaspina Castle, on the top of the hill.The restored mansion of the Deriu house is open as a museum with furnished rooms and an art gallery.Inside the castle is a 13th-century chapel, where you should see the unusual fresco cycle of the fourteenth century.
From the port city of Olbia to the tip of the test, some of the most beautiful beaches of the world are placed in cracked bays washed by a sea so green and clear that it is known to the world as Costa Smeralda, the emerald coast.Khan in the 1960s in a series of resorts for the rich.The "villages" of the accommodated resort are built to look like the Greek islands and Riviera. In the center of all these is Porto Cervo, a resort village and a leisure port for private yachts built in the 1960s. Apart from watching people, its only attraction for those who are not reserved in a resort, aoverlooking Porto Cervo.The most modest city-state in the region is the small animated city of Cannigione, from Arzachena Gulf. N n de Five Stars of L 'EA Bianca Luxury Resort, near Porto Cervo, personifies the sybral lifestyle that made Costa Smeralda, his intelligent rooms with great view from private balconies.
Most tourists begin their visit to the capital of Cagliari, stopping at least to climb from Piazza della Costitzione to Bastione San Remy.Built to defend the Castello neighborhood, the place of the beautiful cathedral and the fortress of the one who controls the city at that time, today offers a historical and visual perspective, with panoramic views over the city and the Gulf.From the medi streets and the high bastions in Cagliari, they are only a few kilometers away to the ruins of the old city of Nora, where the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romanians had their commercial positions.Go to the east of the city and, in a few minutes, you can relax on one of the legendary beaches that make Sardinia one of the favorite summer playgrounds in Europe.Forte Village is one of the top hotels and resorts in Sardinia.
Make a cruise from Banchina Dogana (Port) from Alghero to Capo Caccia Peak, the long promontory you saw from the Alghero walls, to visit this beautiful cave, full of stalagmites and stalactite that is reflected in an underground lake.The mouth of the cave is located in the sea, and the arrival on the water is the most dramatic approach, not to mention the easiest.But you can travel here, about 14 kilometers of alghero, passing by an interesting nurse along the road.Once you get here, you will need to go down (and, remember, also to climb back) on the 656 steps of the cabirol (goat stairs), carved in front of the rock.
Hanged by the tip of a steep mountain ridge, the precipitated streets of Nuoro open up to views in all directions.Santa Maria della Neve Cathedral of the 19th century is above a rock that falls directly into the valley, and the small market in front of the church is almost the only level of level in the city.XX, Daramiti of the 21st.It is a fascinating region, with cities hanging by the steep slopes of the mountains and the local habits that still keep the ancient past. It is not for the heart, but it is not for the weak hearts, as the roads are narrow and steep, with the hair turned over pure drops, without railing.You can find out more about these villages and their often strange customs at the remarkable Museo Ethnographic Sardo (the Museum of Sardinian traditions), which deserves only a stop in Nuoro.The clothing is presented on models with jewelry and accessories worn at weddings and festivals.An entire gallery displays traditional masks.While you are there, the National Archaeological Museum has excavated collections from neolithic sites, as well as fossils
You may be wondering if you have to stop at each Nughe and if you have not been fascinated by these mysterious towers so far, maybe you should not.But most tourists fall quickly under the spell of these towers, of which many remain unknown, and soon discover that each of them is quite different.It is illuminated indoors by recessed lamps, so if you do not wear a flashlight, this is your chance to see the interior details of its Thalos of stone domes.It is one of the most complex, a large tower with three outer towers that form a triangular bastion, which you can explore through a maze of stone passages that spiral inside its massive walls.Although it dates from the XII-XIV centuries BC.(Bronze Age), the large central chamber of the main tower is in excellent condition and more refined in its construction than most others.A small museum contains bronze bracelets and other artifacts found here.
Literally thousands of thousands of stone towers spread throughout Sardinia, most in full ruin, but this is the best preserved and most complete.It is also the closest main one to Cagliari and the best interpreted, with 30-minute tours and guides that speak English.The wood found in the walls of the central tower was dated carbon at 1,500 BC, and the outer towers were built in the 11th or 12th centuries BC.You can go inside the tower, climbing to the upper end for a close view of the dome stacked from dried stones without mortar.The ancient village that surrounds it, make sure you stop in the Zapata Casa Museum, in the village, where, along with other fascinating exhibits, you can see another nuraghe that was excavated under the building.Here, you have a bird's bird view on a walkway above the walls. N nadresa: SS 131, Barumini (next
Not far from the north of Oristano is one of the most atmospheric and various archaeological attractions in Sardinia, where you can see a remarkably preserved "holy" - a temple from 1200-1100 BC.And a tower of Nuraghe where you can climb the wild flowers open roof for sight at the prehistoric stone village that surrounded it.Take a flashlight so you can see the interior while climbing the Nuraghe roof.If you want another layer of history, stop between the fountain and the nuraghe to see the group of small houses of stone pilgrims, former monks who surround a church from the 12th century.The pilgrimages come here still in May and October.
Sassari, the second largest city in Sardinia, is a lively cultural and university center and is proud of a few fine buildings in the Gothic, baroque and neoclassical style.Go to Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the main street from the medi era, looking up to see the old portions and windows on the houses of the region, five centuries ago.Do not miss the duomo, whose facade is a revolt (one could say a hodge-podge) of the seventeenth-century ornaments, created by stone carved carved.The black and white striped tower rises above the church and the ruined monastery of Santissima Trinità di Saccargia, the best example of Pisan architecture in Sardinia.Inside, if you are fortunate to find it open, they are frescoes from the 13th century
One of the highest concentrations of attractions from the stone and copper era is only a few kilometers from the resorts in Costa Smeralda, but it looks like a whole world.The six notable sites include Nuraghi, funeral places and curious tombs with local rooms as a giant tomba (graves of the giants).Lolghi, has a similar entrance, but with three and a half.-memeter. In the nearby nnecropolis of Li, he had a stone tombs built in flat stones circles, once covered by earth mounds.Nuraghi Albucciu is unusual in that its shape is oval, with a side of a large stone outside.Nuraghe at Prisgiona is the most recently excavated, a central tower with two side towers and the remains of a village.One at the east of Arzachena looks like a huge mushroom.A short walk of one of these outbursts, in the Hills above Arzachena, pilastru tapeworms are tastefully decorated in local and art production furniture, and each has its own terrace to enjoy the point of view.Enjoy the tables at the excellent restaurant.
Go among the stone remains of the Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman cultures on this rocky point and try to imagine what the Roman streets under the feet looked like they were lined with shops where you now see foundations and thresholds.The columns in the baths remain standing, along with parts of the aqueduct and temples;The amphitheater has the sea view. Between the top of the hill is a Phoenician necropolis (they left around 650 BC).For a sense of what archaeologists have found here, visit the excellent Museo Civico Giovanni Marugiu from Cabras, where they are displayed sculpted stone, funeral and other discoveries, positioned as they were initially found.The Dom of Santa Maria in the Data Oristano from medi times, but was renovated during the Spanish domination of this part of Sardinia, in the 18th and 19th centuries, which represents colorful tiles covering its domes.Although it is one minute by the Santa Maria dome in the center of Oristano, the hotel offers free parking.The sumptuous breakfast is served on fine porcelain.
Surrounded by the cones of the ancient volcanoes, this wide and flat valley, scattered with eroded rocky formations, is also sprinkled with prehistoric sites, first of all, Nuraghe Santu Antine.BCThis is one of the most interesting to explore, because you can climb the stairs inside the thick walls of the central tower to the second and third floors, which are intact, and follow a upper corridor from the west to the northern towers.They were used in the medi era as the sihi and you can see painted frescoes inside some.This site is open irregularly, but you can see it from the entrance and you can climb on a route to see the top ones.
