Sardinia is by surface the second island of the Mediterranean Sea and an Italian region with special status whose official name is Autonomous Region of Sardinia. Its special status, enshrined in the 1948 constitution, guarantees the administrative autonomy of local institutions and the protection of its linguistic and cultural particularities.
Sardinia, separated from Corsica by the mouths of Bonifacio, is located in the middle of the western Mediterranean Sea: this central position has favored since Antiquity commercial and cultural relations as well as economic, military and strategic interests.
In modern times, many writers have extolled the beauty of Sardinia, which still retains, despite the extension of coastal tourism, a protected landscape and an important heritage, among which the remains of the Nuragic culture.
A journey on the waves of an emerald sea between large and small coves of white sand. This is Sardinia, an island that surprises the visitor with its natural contrasts, its lights and the colors of a country with ancient traditions, in a deserted and preserved nature.
Located in the heart of the Mediterranean, Sardinia is an essentially mountainous region, without very high peaks, it offers the visitor a pure and unique environment, both harsh and gentle. Man, in fact, only rarely makes any act of presence in this territory, where vast areas are left in their raw state and wild nature reclaims its rights: luxuriant and thousand-year-old forests, desert or marshy areas alternate, welcoming a specific fauna: deer, wild horses, large birds of prey.
The sea reigns supreme and plays with its shimmering colors as it slips into the small jagged coves, along the coast, on the busiest beaches. Porto Cervo, pearl of the Costa Smeralda, is a perfect example of the marriage between history, its culture and its ancestral traditions with a cheerful and colorful nightlife. Porto Vecchio is considered the best equipped marina in the Mediterranean. Porto Rotondo is also a very busy locality. Overlooking the vast Gulf of Cugnana, it is home to small squares and opulent houses surrounded by magnificent gardens.
If you prefer the mountains to the sea, you can explore the Gennargentu region, the largest mountain system in Sardinia. Landscapes worthy of the greatest canvases where man and nature are in symbiosis, leaving the latter a dominating place. The flora and fauna are then very rich: mouflons, golden eagles, Sardinian deer among other endangered species.
Among the wonders that Sardinia offers visitors, we find several nuragic complexes scattered throughout the territory, unique monuments in the world testifying to the existence (between the 15th and 6th centuries BC) of an ancient civilization, partly still unknown.
The Nuraghes – built with large blocks of stone, develop around a central tower in the shape of truncated cones transmitting a feeling of stability and grandeur.
These are archaeological sites that manage to transmit the daily habits and rituals of an archaic civilization.
Among the nuragic villages, that of Barumini, in the province of Medio Campidano is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The region is divided into several provinces: Cagliari (capital), Carbonia-Iglesias, Nuoro, Olbia-Tempio, Oristano, Medio Campidano, Sassari, Ogliastra.
