I monumenti
Tutti i monumenti, città per città
I luoghi e i capolavori attorno a cui vale la pena costruire una giornata.
BaruminiUNESCOSu Nuraxi di BaruminiGreatest nuraghe complex, Bronze Age tower village, basalt corbelling, mysterious buildersSardinia built seven thousand stone towers in the Bronze Age, and Su Nuraxi is their capital work: a central tower ringed by four more and a village of huts. Who the builders were and what the towers meant remain open questions.Pianifica la visita
La MaddalenaArcipelago di La MaddalenaSeven granite islands, pink sand of Budelli, Garibaldi's Caprera, national park watersSeven granite islands and their satellites scatter across some of the Mediterranean's clearest water, protected as a national park. Boats circle Budelli's forbidden pink beach, and Caprera keeps Garibaldi's white house as he left it.
AlgheroGrotta di NettunoStalactite cathedral by the sea, 654-step Escala del Cabirol, underground lake, boat approach from AlgheroAt the foot of Capo Caccia's 110-meter cliff, Neptune's Grotto opens onto halls of stalactites around a salt lake. Arrival is half the event: by boat from Alghero, or down the 654 steps of the Goat's Stairway cut into the cliff face.
TharrosArea Archeologica di TharrosPhoenician port on the Sinis peninsula, basalt cardo, twin Corinthian columns, San Giovanni towerTharros spreads down the Sinis peninsula to a turquoise bay, its basalt main street grooved by Punic and Roman traffic. Two re-erected Corinthian columns mark the skyline between a Spanish tower and the open sea.
PulaArea Archeologica di NoraPhoenician-Roman city on a cape, seaside theatre, mosaic floors, Nora Stone findspotPhoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans took turns at Nora, whose ruins now run along a cape with the sea on three sides. The small theatre still hosts summer performances, and the famous Nora Stone carried Sardinia's earliest writing.
BaruminiGemma nascostaPozzo sacro di Funtana CobertaA Nuragic holy well (c. 1200-850 BC) of squared limestone blocks in the rural Sarrabus-Gerrei subregion at Ballao, excavated by Taramelli in 1918; public access recorded as yes.
Santa Teresa GalluraCapo TestaWind-sculpted granite moonscape, Valle della Luna, twin lighthouse cape, Corsica across the straitWind has carved Capo Testa's granite into a sculpture garden no artist would dare sign. Hippies wintered in the Valle della Luna's coves, and Corsica floats across the strait beyond the lighthouse.
CarloforteGemma nascostaTempio di AntasA Carthaginian-Roman temple in a remote valley near Fluminimaggiore, originally built around 500 BC and rebuilt by Augustus, with an adjacent nuragic village and sacred cave; public access recorded as yes.
NuoroGemma nascostaFonte sacra Su TempiesuThe best-preserved Nuragic sacred spring on the island (c. 13th century BC), built of squared basalt with a steep double-pitched roof, reached on foot near Orune and visited by only about 5,000 people in 2022.
NuoroGemma nascostaComplesso nuragico di RomanzesuA sprawling Bronze Age Nuragic sanctuary village above Bitti spanning over seven hectares, with a holy well, roughly a hundred huts, two megaron temples, an amphitheatre and a labyrinth structure, managed for visitors by a local cooperative.
OrgosoloGemma nascostaMuseo delle Maschere MediterraneeA small ethnographic museum in the mountain village of Mamoiada, open to the public, devoted to the Mamuthones and Issohadores carnival masks of Barbagia and related Mediterranean masking traditions.
Cala GononeCala LunaCrescent beach between cliffs, shoreline caves, Gulf of Orosei boats, oleander ravineA crescent of pale sand closes the mouth of a oleander-filled ravine on the Gulf of Orosei. Boats from Cala Gonone share the bay with hikers off the cliff path, and the shoreline caves give shade at noon.
OrgosoloMurales di OrgosoloTwo hundred political murals, Barbagia shepherd town, open-air protest gallery, painted history of struggleOrgosolo's walls carry two hundred murals of protest and memory, painted since 1969 in the heart of the Barbagia. The shepherd town turned its facades into an open-air manifesto, updated as the world gives cause.
CagliariQuartiere CastelloWalled hilltop quarter, Pisan towers, Bastione di Saint Remy, cathedral and museums withinCagliari's citadel quarter keeps its Pisan towers, cathedral and museums behind walls above the gulf. The Bastione di Saint Remy's terrace is the city's grand balcony, flamingo lagoons shimmering in the distance.
StintinoSpiaggia della PelosaShallow turquoise lagoon, Aragonese watchtower islet, Asinara views, booked-entry sandsLa Pelosa shelves so gently that the turquoise seems lit from below, with an Aragonese tower on its islet completing the postcard. Entry is now capped and booked, the price of being Italy's most loved beach.
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