La Maddalena, a world unto itself
An archipelago of small islands fills the Sardinian sea with boundless beauty
all different but with the same charm and enchantment
Magnificent natural settings and scenery of incredible charm, but what really makes the Maddalena Archipelago unique is that each of its islands has its own air, its own atmosphere. There is the delicate one to look at from afar, the most intimate one where you can feel a bit like a hero, the scintillating one to be experienced day and night, the craggy ones where history and the waves have been heavy-handed, and the Caribbean ones, envied by the whole world. Even if some of the islands are very small and uninhabited, they seduce like no other place and these small lands contain all the "charisma and symptomatic mystery" inherited from their mother Sardinia. Just like her, they too have been inhabited since the dawn of time. When history first began, the ‘obsidian way’ passed through here and, until the decline of the Roman Empire, also the granite of Gallura. They were abandoned for a long time. Monks arrived in the Middle Ages, later joined, little by little, by families of Corsican shepherds and fishermen from Ponza, starting a new story of men and women with the sea in their hearts, who made the community that had settled at La Maddalena great, always defending and never violating the islands of the archipelago, which reached us with the mysterious purity of places that have barely been touched.
The outliers, to be respected
Full of herself for sure, with a natural beauty and the beating heart of life on the archipelago, you can arrive here after a day of sailing from one island to another, hiking along the trails, swimming on the seabed and visiting the wreckages or riding your bike, exploring the little bays hidden from view. In the evening, you can recharge your batteries in town, on the seafront, on the beach or in the historic centre. Tomorrow is a new day on the archipelago.
Together, they form a delightful little archipelago, known for its natural pools and protected by the bay of Porto Rotondo and Capriccioli, in the…
The outliers, to be respected
Full of herself for sure, with a natural beauty and the beating heart of life on the archipelago, you can arrive here after a day of sailing from one island to another, hiking along the trails, swimming on the seabed and visiting the wreckages or riding your bike, exploring the little bays hidden from view. In the evening, you can recharge your batteries in town, on the seafront, on the beach or in the historic centre. Tomorrow is a new day on the archipelago.
Together, they form a delightful little archipelago, known for its natural pools and protected by the bay of Porto Rotondo and Capriccioli, in the…
The outliers, to be respected
Full of herself for sure, with a natural beauty and the beating heart of life on the archipelago, you can arrive here after a day of sailing from one island to another, hiking along the trails, swimming on the seabed and visiting the wreckages or riding your bike, exploring the little bays hidden from view. In the evening, you can recharge your batteries in town, on the seafront, on the beach or in the historic centre. Tomorrow is a new day on the archipelago.
Together, they form a delightful little archipelago, known for its natural pools and protected by the bay of Porto Rotondo and Capriccioli, in the…
The outliers, to be respected
Full of herself for sure, with a natural beauty and the beating heart of life on the archipelago, you can arrive here after a day of sailing from one island to another, hiking along the trails, swimming on the seabed and visiting the wreckages or riding your bike, exploring the little bays hidden from view. In the evening, you can recharge your batteries in town, on the seafront, on the beach or in the historic centre. Tomorrow is a new day on the archipelago.
Together, they form a delightful little archipelago, known for its natural pools and protected by the bay of Porto Rotondo and Capriccioli, in the…
The outliers, to be respected
Full of herself for sure, with a natural beauty and the beating heart of life on the archipelago, you can arrive here after a day of sailing from one island to another, hiking along the trails, swimming on the seabed and visiting the wreckages or riding your bike, exploring the little bays hidden from view. In the evening, you can recharge your batteries in town, on the seafront, on the beach or in the historic centre. Tomorrow is a new day on the archipelago.
Together, they form a delightful little archipelago, known for its natural pools and protected by the bay of Porto Rotondo and Capriccioli, in the…
Life at the lighthouse
An atmosphere like the desert of the Tartars, absolute wilderness, yet it is the island that tells the most about humanity, about the families of the lighthouse keepers who lived in communities on the edge of the world. Stories told by the only ‘foreigner’ - the teacher of the boys who stayed at the lighthouse. Stories of complicated daily life, feelings and moods suspended while waiting for something to happen. In the background, the wind and waves create their usual music.
An island in the far north of Sardinia, which is part of the Maddalena archipelago, characterised by granite cliffs, unspoiled nature and mysterious…
The fairest of them all?
Probably... and it is undoubtedly the island of the enchanted bays, the one most fragrant with Mediterranean plants and the most welcoming with easy and sheltered landing places. In the early nineteenth century, it was apparently home to a bandit who hid here in order to avoid prison. After proving his innocence, not only did he not want to leave the island, but he settled there permanently with his family, living on fishing and sheep farming. Who could blame him.
In the northeasternmost part of Sardinia, among the islands of the Maddalena Archipelago, there is an uncontaminated paradise of genuine beauty, with…
Everyone wants me, nobody takes me
It is the island with an indecipherable air, an immense granite sculpture forgotten on the beach, the fort abandoned by Napoleon after bombing La Maddalena in vain, the wreckages lying on the seabed, the US marine base, that of the nuclear propulsion submarines, now vacated. It was also Garibaldi’s ‘first choice’, later abandoned due to the lack of land for sale. These events say a lot about the island’s strange fate.
A ‘Sentinel’ with a glorious past and a harsh, wild appearance, in a strategic position between La Maddalena, Caprera and the extreme northeastern…
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