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A Two-Day Drive You'll Never Forget

Costa Smeralda If you fly into Olbia, rent a car at the airport. Or take your car on the ferry to Golfo Aranci. Sardinia is a place for drivers: the public transportation is dismal, unreliable and SLOW. However you get to the island, have a car and drive it north, following the frequent signs marked "Costa Smeralda."

Ferries leave for La Maddalena from Piazza del Molo in Palau several times a day, although you may have to wait for a second one in August. One ferry a day leaves from Via Porto in S. Teresa di Gallura, where you can also catch a ferry for Corsica.

A Bit of Liguria in Sardinia

Like the Italian peninsula, Sardinia has been at the crossroads of different cultures and civilizations for more than 3 millennia. Positioned smack dab in the middle of the Mediterranean, it has been conquered, occupied and colonized by almost everyone, starting from the mysterious people who built the Nuraghe. Next came the Phoenicians, and Punic settlements such as Tharros. With a splash of Arab here and there, the next centuries witnessed various Spanish contingents and then the Italians (Genoese in particular).