Wandering Sardinia

su galgone meats roasting

Su Gologone

For my money, the most evocative hotel restaurant in Sardinia is Su Gologone, and it sits pretty in a wild corner of the island, all prickly with things to experience.

santa sabina church and nuraghe

Santa Sabina Church & Nuraghe

Santa Sabina is a small site in the Nuoro province outside of Macomer, but the 10th century church will charm you, and the nuraghe built between 1600 and 1000 BC has a great interior space and you can climb it to the top.

nuarghe Losa

Nuraghe Losa: Abbasanta

Another Sardinian off-ramp attraction like Santa Cristina, Nuraghe Losa was constructed in the Middle Bronze Age (15th-14th century BC) and is notable for its fine architecture.

grazia deledda writing desk

Grazia Deledda House: Where Stories Were Born

If you seek the font from which Grazia Deledda's Nobel Prize winning works flowed, visit the house the writer was born in and from which she "caught sense" in Nuoro, the "Athens of Sardinia".

butcher shop alghero

Alghero's Central Market: La Boqueria

We're always happy to find a thriving food market in Sardinian cities. But something wasn't exactly right in La Boqueria

sacred well sardara

Sardara Travel Guide: History, Spas and Good Eats

Learn loads about Sardinian history while visiting the little villages around Sardara.

tomb

Ruins and Regrets

Ruins tell a story, often one of sadness and lost. They are compelling to look at and think about, far more so than freshly plastered palaces of the rich. What do we do with them?