Homegrown son Andrea Cau shares his favourite spots
Sardegna
Rugged, jagged and enigmatic, Sardegna enchants as Italy’s second-largest island in the Mediterranean, where beautiful dunes, rocky bays and some of the Med’s most exclusive beach clubs hide a wild and very private inland, with a patrimonial pedigree starting from the Paleothic era.
FUN FACTS
- A true Centuriun, Sardegna is one of the world’s five "Blue Zones" (longest-lived cultures) where residents reach 90 years or older.
- The island’s 7000 registered archaeological sites make up 20% of all of Italy’s sites)
- Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda is the only Italian woman to have ever received the Nobel Prize for literature.
- At 500m in depth, The Su Gorropu canyon is the deepest in Italy and among the deepest in Europe.
- Celebrating four millennia, Luras’ olive tree Babbu Mannu “Great Father” is the oldest tree in Italy.
Sardegna
Rugged, jagged and enigmatic, Sardegna enchants as Italy’s second-largest island in the Mediterranean, where beautiful dunes, rocky bays and some of the Med’s most exclusive beach clubs hide a wild and very private inland, with a patrimonial pedigree starting from the Paleothic era.
FUN FACTS
- A true Centuriun, Sardegna is one of the world’s five "Blue Zones" (longest-lived cultures) where residents reach 90 years or older.
- The island’s 7000 registered archaeological sites make up 20% of all of Italy’s sites)
- Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda is the only Italian woman to have ever received the Nobel Prize for literature.
- At 500m in depth, The Su Gorropu canyon is the deepest in Italy and among the deepest in Europe.
- Celebrating four millennia, Luras’ olive tree Babbu Mannu “Great Father” is the oldest tree in Italy.
GUIDES
FOOD
CULTURE
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