28 Outdoors- Other to Explore in Sardinia

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Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy. The island attracts more than a million tourists from both Italy, from the rest of Europe, and, to a lesser degree, from the rest of the world. According to statistics, tourist arrivals in 2016 were 2.9 million people.

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Outdoors- Other to Explore in Sardinia

Porto Flavia

Porto Flavia is a service infrastructure of the mining area of Masua, no longer operational, located in the south-western area of Sardinia and falls administratively in the municipality of Iglesias, Province of South Sardinia, in what is now the seaside resort of Masua. Although it was a mining site, it was not a mine, but a port of embarkation for the material extracted from the nearby mines. It was designed by the Venetian engineer Cesare Vecelli and built-in 1924; it was named after the elde

Roccia dell'Elefante

The Elephant rock is a large trachytic and andesitic boulder, with a strong rust color, considerably eroded by atmospheric agents that have given it the singular appearance of a seated pachyderm. The rock, which has a height of about four meters, is located in the municipality of Castelsardo in Multeddu, at km 4.3 of the SS 134 that connects the aforementioned municipality to Sedini. Originally the boulder was part of the rocky complex of Monte Castellazzu from which it broke away by rolling do

Scoglio Pan di Zucchero

Pan di Zucchero, original name in Sardinian Concali su Terràinu, is a stack that rises from the sea a short distance from the coast, near Masua, a hamlet of Iglesias, in the south-west of Sardinia. It has an area of ​​0.03 km² and a height of 133 meters. It is composed of Cambric limestone and originated from the action of marine erosion which determined its isolation from the mainland. On the rocky coast, a few hundred meters to the east is the mouth of the fascinating Porto Flavia mining site

Sella del diavolo

The Sella del Diavolo is the promontory that rises in the southern area of Cagliari and separates the Poetto beach from that of Calamosca. There is a naturalistic and archaeological path that runs along the entire promontory, created thanks to the initiative of the environmental non-profit Group of Legal Intervention and Friends of the Earth.

Sini, Sardinia

The Sinis is a peninsula of the Sardinian west-central located between the Bay of Is Arenas in the north, and the Gulf of Oristano in the south. In the sea to the west of the peninsula is the island of Mal di Ventre and the Scoglio del Catalano. The coast is rocky in the southern part around San Giovanni di Sinis, proceeding northwards it first becomes sandy then, proceeding further north, it is characterized by high cliffs up to Capo Mannu.

Sorgente Su Gologone

Su Gologone is the main resurgence of a vast karst system located in Sardinia, in the Supramonte di Oliena area, in the province of Nuoro. The water escapes from a crack in the limestone rock, which penetrates underground to the depth currently explored by speleologists of 135 meters. The maximum lean flow rate of the spring was measured in 1995 as 60 liters per second while the full flow rate is estimated at 8,000 liters

Su Nuraxi di Barumini

Su Nuraxi is a nuragic archaeological site in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. Su Nuraxi simply means "The Nuraghe" in Campidanese, the southern variant of the Sardinian language. Su Nuraxi is a settlement consisting of a seventeenth-century BCE Nuraghe, a bastion of four corner towers plus a central one, and a village inhabited from the thirteenth to the sixth century BCE, developed around the Nuraghe.

Valle della Luna

Cala Grande is a small valley, about 500 m long, located in the western area of ​​the Capo Testa promontory, in the municipality of Santa Teresa Gallura, in Sardinia. "Valley of the Moon" is the name given to this place around the '60s by a hippy community. It is characterized by the presence on both sides of the valley of granite rocks with unusual shapes which, although not unlike those present in the rest of the promontory, here form a straight valley that runs down to the sea.

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