Campidano di Cagliari

The historical stories and today's fortune of the extreme southern layer of the Campidano revolve around an important geographical element: water.
The water of the lagoons, around which rose the towns of Quartu, Quartucciu, Monserrato, and Selargius right from the Middle Ages, always industrious and at one time crossed by rivers of which memory remains in the layout of the main streets. The water of its gulf, that arches from Nora to Capo Carbonara, and where the capital of Sardinia stands, Cagliari.

This city, since time began a crossroad of different peoples and heart of the island’s economic activities, stands under a particularly bright shining sun, that also in the winter months dazzles the surfaces of the narrow streets and lanes in the historical districts of Castello, Marina, Stampace and Villanova. The same sun illuminates the territory between the mountains of Capoterra and the Cagliaritano coastline, where the towns arranged in a semicircle around the Gulf share the privilege of being near important sanctuaries and able to enjoy breathtaking panoramic views. On the blue sea of the Gulf of Cagliari, but also in the countryside of the fertile campidanese plain, coloured by grapevines and orchards, to which the authenticity and quality of the local cuisine is owed.

Besides the sea and the countryside, the Cagliaritano is also famed for the presence, in the town pool of Molentargius, among reeds, rushes, waterweeds, of the stately flamingos that here have established their permanent habitat.
Finally, there are numerous small coves in which it is possible to practise naturism, but never during the high tourist season.