Wandering Sardinia

Exposing the Mysteries of the Mediteranean's Most Interesting Island

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?
tharros roman road

How Big Is Sardinia?

Size matters when travel planning. Using a map of the United States and superimposing the island of Sardinia on it, we create a better way to judge the size of the island and how you might cover it on vacation.
sant'andrea priu

Bonorva Finds a Roman City

Bonorva is where you get off the superstrada for the Valley of the Nuraghe, but they’ve just found the ruins of a rather large Roman city just out of town.