Beach holidays in Sardinia, Costa Smeralda
The beach vacation in Costa Smeralda, this stretch of coastline between Sardinia and Breed of Cow Smooth Junco, have become a timeless myth known throughout the world. The signing marked the birth of this reality interwoven with unbridled luxury and unparalleled natural wonders dates back to September 29, 1961, the day that a syndicate of businessmen and architects of exception - made up of Giancarlo and Michael Busiri Vici, René Podbielski , Patrick Guinness and, of course, by Prince Ismaili - founded The Consortium is intended to transform the 5,000 acres of wilderness and uninhabited of Gallura in one of the most exclusive resorts in the world after making class seaside holidays. After all, it was easy to imagine the immense economic potential of the tangle of this true paradise on earth
, color palette with endless nuances and depth, perfect theater for villas and resorts freely inspired by the traditional local style, rough and simple, but in reality with comfort reserved for a select audience. Suite of 500 square meters with a swimming pool and private beach, helicopter and limousine service 24 hours on 24, fabulous yacht ready to sail for solitary shores. This is, for forty years, the Costa Emerald for VIPs, attending the local page of Porto Cervo and Porto Rotondo, such as the Leeward and Windward Club, the Billionaire and Peper, or The Smaila's. Overwhelmed by the crowds of tourists who annually invade the beaches and the continuous swarm between a creek and the other sailing boats or motor may come to think that all this has distorted the places and atmospheres, but it is not. Nevertheless, the intense perfume of arbutus and rock rose, which hovers everywhere, the magic tint of pink granite rocks shaped by wind, the soft golden sand stretches of the Great
Pevero ,
of Cala di Volpe (pictured above) of
Smooth Ruja or
and Principe, above all, clear waters that separate the costs from the moorings of beautiful islands
Mortorio, murmurs and Rooms, remind everyone, VIP or not, the power of Nature here has played its cards better, creating a landscape of rare beauty to dream of holidays at sea. And
exceeded "boundaries" of the Costa Smeralda, Smooth Cow Breed and Junco fact, the suggestions continue. To the south in the mysterious recesses of the most reserved
Capo Figari and Golfo Aranci , down to the Olbia,
San Teodoro and Capo Coda Cavallo , where with a little 'luck you may spot herons and flamingos. To the north in '
Archipelago of La Maddalena National Park since 1996 , A labyrinth inscribed between rocks shaped like clay and turquoise waters of twenty-three islands, inhabited or not. Spread, Budelli, Razzoli and Santa Maria, in addition to the famous Caprera, shelter end of a triumphant but now ill Giuseppe Garibaldi. To see the archipelago as a whole is the ideal viewpoint Capo d'Orso, the Cape west of Palau, recognizable because of its bear-shaped figure with his head bent toward the sea. Here, according to one of several interprefazioni Odyssey, Odysseus would have landed, then accepted by the people of Lestrigoni. Palau, as well as the nearby Santa Teresa di Gallura, today changed its vocation as a fishing port in the resort, offering hotel services and that have nothing to inferior to those of the nearby Costa Smeralda. In particular, Santa Teresa, the most common in the north of Sardinia, still retains the charm of a place rich in history, inhabited since prehistoric times and the result of a superposition of different achievements. Indelible mark of the passage of the Aragonese is, for example, the Tower of Longosardo, one of eighty built by Philip II to defend the coast. About three kilometers from the town stretches out into the sea of \u200b\u200bCapo Testa, an isthmus connected to the mainland by an expanse of rock perpetually tormented by the waves and strong wind. Continuing south, we find then Torre Vignola, at the foot of the promontory of Monte Russu, and Portobello di Gallura, which marks the beginning of
Costa Paradiso . The name is a credit to the grace of a stretch of coast that is still little known and visited, it offers sandy beaches and rocky coves of which is not uncommon to find only "masters". The walls of the fortress and the Castelsardo, a charming town founded by the thirteenth century the Genoese Doria family, instead announcing the Gulf dell, another happy concentration of natural and historical wonders. Starting from Porto Torres - A focal point of embarkation Sardinian grain at a time of ancient Rome, then fought the commercial port of Pisa and Genoa, and the last outpost against the attacks of Aragon - whose symbol is the cathedral of San Gavino , built in the eleventh century in Pisa and considered among the most Romanesque representative of the region. Asinara, preceded dall'isoletta Pelosa and his beautiful English tower, you could write a novel, inspired now by moving beauty of the landscape, burnt by the sun, but full of life and color, now by the press that over the past 150 years , saw it become a hospital first, then a prison, and finally a national park since 1986.