Lonely Planet Sardinia

Gregor Clark

Description

Lonely Planet's Sardinia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore Cagliari's Il Castello, find a secluded cove on the Costa Smeralda, and walk the shores of Golfo di Orosei; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Sardinia Travel Guide: What's NEW in this edition? Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020's COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of Sardinia's best experiences and where to have them Planning tools for family travellers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids NEW pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card* with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Eating & drinking in Sardinia - we reveal the dishes and drinks you have to try Sardinia's beaches - whether you're looking for relaxation or activities, we break down the best beaches to visit and provide safety information Colour maps and images throughout Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics Over 34 maps Covers Cagliari & the Sarrabus, Iglesias & the Southwest, Oristano & the West, Alghero & the Northwest, Olbia, the Costa Smeralda & Gallura, Nuoro & the East The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Sardinia, our most comprehensive guide to Sardinia, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Italy for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

Sujets

• Sardinia

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781838692636
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 43 Mo

Extrait

Sardinia

Contents

PLAN YOUR TRIP

Welcome to Sardinia
Sardinia’s Top Experiences
Need to Know
Month by Month
Itineraries
Off the Beaten Track Itinerary
Getting Around
Activities
Family Travel
Regions at a Glance

ON THE ROAD

Cagliari & the Sarrabus
Cagliari
Sights
Activities
Courses
Tours
Festivals & Events
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
The Sarrabus
Villasimius & Capo Carbonara
Costa Rei
Iglesias & the Southwest
Iglesias
The Iglesiente
Southern Iglesiente Coast
Buggerru & Portixeddu
Costa Verde
Sulcis
Carbonia
Tratalias
Santadi
Isola di San Pietro
Isola di Sant’Antioco
Porto Pino & Around
Costa del Sud
Pula & Around
La Marmilla
Barumini & Nuraghe Su Nuraxi
La Giara di Gesturi
Villanovaforru & Nuraghe Genna Maria
Sardara
Sanluri
Oristano & the West
Oristano
South of Oristano
Santa Giusta
Arborea
Marceddi
Sinis Peninsula
Cabras
Marina di Torregrande
San Salvatore
Tharros & San Giovanni di Sinis
Montiferru
Santu Lussurgiu & Around
Cuglieri
Santa Caterina di Pittinuri
Seneghe
Milis
Inland Oristano Province
Bosa
Alghero & the Northwest
Alghero
Riviera del Corallo
Fertilia
Around Fertilia
Porto Conte & Capo Caccia
The North Coast
Stintino & Isola dell’Asinara
Porto Torres
Castelsardo
Sassari
Around Sassari
Ozieri
Sennori, Sorso & the Sassari Riviera
Valle dei Nuraghi
Olbia, the Costa Smeralda & Gallura
Olbia
Golfo Aranci
South Coast
Porto San Paolo & Isola Tavolara
San Teodoro
Costa Smeralda & Around
Porto Cervo
Poltu Quatu
Baia Sardinia
Cannigione
Arzachena
San Pantaleo
Northern Gallura Coast
Santa Teresa di Gallura
Palau
Arcipelago di La Maddalena
Porto Pollo & Isola Dei Gabbiani
The Interior
Tempio Pausania
Aggius
Berchidda & Monti
Nuoro & the East
Nuoro
Barbagia
Orgosolo
Mamoiada
Gavoi
Fonni
Aritzo
Sarcidano
Laconi
South of Laconi
Golfo di Orosei
Cala Gonone
Orosei
Galtelli
Supramonte
Oliena
Dorgali & Around
Baunei & the Altopiano del Golgo
Ogliastra
Tortolì & Arbatax
North of Tortolì & Arbatax
Inland Ogliastra
Accommodation
Cagliari & the Sarrabus
Iglesias & the Southwest
Oristano & the West
Alghero & the Northwest
Olbia, the Costa Smeralda & Gallura
Nuoro & the East

UNDERSTAND

History
The Sardinian Way of Life
The Arts
The Sardinian Kitchen

SURVIVAL GUIDE

Directory A–Z
Accessible Travel
Customs Regulations
Climate
Discount Cards
Electricity
Embassies & Consulates
Food & Drink
Health
Insurance
Internet Access
Legal Matters
LGBTIQ+ Travellers
Maps
Money
Opening Hours
Post
Public Holidays
Safe Travel
Telephone
Time
Toilets
Tourist Information
Visas
Volunteering
Women Travellers
Work
Transport
Getting There & Away
Entering the Region
Air
Land
Sea
Getting Around
Air
Bicycle
Boat
Bus
Car & Motorcycle
Tours
Train
Language
Behind the Scenes
Our Writers

COVID-19
We have re-checked every business in this book before publication to ensure that it is still open after the COVID-19 outbreak. However, the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 will continue to be felt long after the outbreak has been contained, and many businesses, services and events referenced in this guide may experience ongoing restrictions. Some businesses may be temporarily closed, have changed their opening hours and services, or require bookings; some unfortunately could have closed permanently. We suggest you check with venues before visiting for the latest information.
Welcome to Sardinia

Translucent cerulean seas. Russet craggy coasts. Sparkling white-quartz beaches. Moody, mountainous interiors. From the rustling vineyards to its bursting, vibrant culture, Sardinia is the Mediterranean dream. Best of all is simply heading out on the open road and seeing what happens – who I meet along the way, the delicious food and wine I encounter, and the priceless moments I find just being in a land of such rich history and rugged beauty.

Sardinia’s stunning west coast | STEFANO GARAU/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

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Sardinia’s Top Experiences

1 BEACH BLISS
Sardinia’s islands, beaches and wind-sculpted seascapes are justly world-famous. Mountains collide spectacularly with the sea, Spanish watchtowers guard sweeping crescents and crystalline waters make for blissful swims. Sands range from russet to coral, from sparkly quartz to shocking white. Find your own favourite patch of sugar-fine sand and luxuriate in offshore turquoise waters.

Golfo di Orosei | ZAKAZ86/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Costa Smeralda
At Costa Smeralda , granite mountains tumble into fjordlike inlets, and an emerald sea fringes a coast necklaced with bays like Spiaggia del Principe – a perfect crescent of white sand smoothed by gin-clear water. Play paparazzi or eschew the high life and seek out secluded coves.

Spiaggia del Principe, Costa Smeralda | ELISALOCCI/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Golfo di Orosei
We can wax lyrical about sparkling aquamarine waters, blindingly white sands and sheer limestone cliffs but seeing is believing when it comes to the Golfo di Orosei . Set your spirits soaring by exploring its sea grottoes in a kayak or by boating out to otherwise inaccessible beaches.

Cala Mariolu, Golfo di Orosei | D.BOND/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Spiaggia di Piscinas
Remote and stunning, the 3.5km swoop of a beach that is Spiaggia di Piscinas lies embedded in fragrant macchia (Mediterranean scrubland). The sunset views are simply priceless.

Spiaggia di Piscinas | FABIANO GOREME CADDEO/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Top Experiences
2 VILLAGE HOPPING
Winding roads and rivers wend through the fields, forests, coastlines and mountains of rural Sardinia. Visit hill towns and seaswept villages for back-in-time flavour, soul food and swoon-worthy views. If you’re up for an offbeat adventure, get behind the wheel for head-spinning drives then wander narrow alleyways, stopping to sample food and homemade tipples at family-run inns.

Boats moored in Bosa | ANNA JEDYNAK/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Beautiful Bosa
Like many great works of art, Bosa is best admired from both near and far. From a distance, take in elegant houses in a fresco painter’s palette of colours, fishing boats bobbing and medieval Castello Malaspina perched overhead. Up close, explore one of Sardinia’s prettiest towns.

Mountain Oases
You’re lost in the wild Barbagia and Ogliastra mountains on a road of hairpin bends, and no map or passing flock of sheep can help you. But then, suddenly, you crest a hill and a village like Aritzo slides into view, surrounded by titanic mountains and sweeping forests.

Aritzo | MICHAEL PASDZIOR/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Street Art in Orgosolo
Once a byword for banditry, today Orgosolo is an enormous canvas for some of the most emotionally charged graffiti you’ll ever see, from social commentary to end-of-the-world prophecy.

Street murals, Orgosolo | NICK FOX/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Top Experiences
3 ExplorE Ancient Civilisations
Stage your own archaeological explorations on this mysterious island. Defensive watchtowers, sacred ritual sites, community centres...the exact purpose of Sardinia’s 7000 nuraghi is unknown. Yet the island’s Bronze Age past is still tangible within the semicircular walls of these stone towers and fortified settlements. Equally enigmatic are the tombe dei giganti (giants’ tombs), megalithic mass graves sealed off by stone stele, and the pozzi sacri (sacred wells).

Nuraghe Su Nuraxi
Most famous and best preserved of the island’s nuraghi , the grand complex of Nuraghe Su Nuraxi is a Unesco World Heritage Site dating to 1500 BCE.

Nuraghe Su Nuraxi | VALERY ROKHIN/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Nuraghe di Santa Cristina
The galvanizing complex Sanctuary of Santa Cristina centres on a Bronze Age water temple, or tempio a pozzo.

Sanctuary of Santa Cristina | VESNA KRIZNAR/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Tiscali
Ponder the meaning of the ruined nuraghe at Tiscali , hidden in a collapsed cave in limestone Supramonte mountains.

Tiscali | ELISA LOCCI/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Top Experiences
4 FOOD FROM THE SOURCE
‘Organic’ and ‘slow food’ are modern-day buzzwords for what Sardinia has been doing for centuries. Trawl the interior for farms selling their own pecorino, salami and full-bodied Cannonau red wines; buy artistic-looking loaves and almondy sweets from bakeries and confectioners in Cagliari and Nuoro; and tuck into a smorgasbord of seafood. Sample the lot at a rustic agriturismo .

Cheese, Cheese and More Cheese
Buy locally produced ricotta, pecorino and goat cheese like those at the working farm Formaggi Gruthas .

Sardinian sausage | ALESSIO ORRU/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Drink Local
Revel in Sardinian wine, at wineries such as Cantine Surrau near the Costa Smeralda, famous for its tangy Vermentino whites and full-bodied Cannonau reds.

Sardinian Specialties
Sample culurgiones (Sardinian ravioli), porcetto (suckling pig) and wonderful seadas al miele (light pastries with ricotta and bitter honey) at Su Gologone .

Top Experiences
5 SOAKING UP THE CULTURE
Carthaginians, Romans, Aragonese and Pisans – all have left their indelible stamp on Sardinia. See their influences blended with modern-day Sardinian creativity when strolling along ramparts, browsing workshops and relaxing on church-dotted piazzas. And don’t forget seasonal arts and food festivals, where you can source beautiful craftwork and indulge in everything from chestnuts to sea urchins.

Festive Sardinia
Be it horse races in S’Ardia or mamuthones in Mamoiada, Sardinians celebrate. Try to catch Sa Sartiglia in Oristano or Cagliari’s Festa di Sant’Efisio .

Sa Sartiglia, Oristano | EMMANUELE CONTINI/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Calagiari’s Castello
Wander the twisting lanes of