Best of Sardinia, Italy: Cagliari, Alghero, Costa Smeralda, Supramonte, Bosa & the Nuraghe Civilization - A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Italy travel | Europe destinations Best of Sardinia, Italy: Cagliari, Alghero, Costa Smeralda, Supramonte, Bosa & the Nuraghe Civilization - A 2026 First-Person Guide I write this from a stone bench above the Bastione di Saint Remy in Cagliari at 7:42 in the evening, with the lagoon turning pink behind the salt pans and a small Vespa coughing its way up the ramp behind me. I have been coming to Sardinia since 2017, first as a backpacker who confused it with Sicily, later as a researcher who fell into the rabbit hole of the 7,000 nuraghe stone towers that nobody at school ever taught me about, and now as a writer who keeps a small notebook of where the bread is best on each coast. Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean at 24,090 square kilometres, is the part of Italy that most travellers skip because they think Tuscany is enough. It is not. This 2026 guide is everything I have learned the hard way, written so you can plan a 10 to 14 day tri...