About Sardinia
Sardinia is where the Mediterranean feels wild again. The Costa Smeralda in the north — where Aga Khan IV invented the concept of exclusive coastal living in the 1960s — remains one of the great sailing spectacles: emerald water over white sand, pink granite outcrops sculpted by wind and wave, and the glamorous marina of Porto Cervo at its centre. But Sardinia’s real reward lies beyond the famous north. The archipelago of La Maddalena — seventeen islands of extraordinary granite beauty between Sardinia and Corsica — is a national marine park of snorkelling grounds and sheltered anchorages of Caribbean clarity. The west coast, rarely visited by charter sailors, hides deserted beaches, dramatic sea stacks, and the ancient salt flats of Cabras, pink with flamingos from spring through autumn. Inland and along the coast, the nuraghe — Bronze Age stone towers unique to Sardinia — appear on headlands and hillsides as silent markers of a civilisation entirely its own. Sardinian cuisine aboard is one of the voyage’s great pleasures: bottarga, culurgiones, and Cannonau wine are best experienced exactly here, at anchor in a bay with no other boats in sight.
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