A yacht charter in Sardinia, Italy is quite an experience.
Sardinia is a universe unto itself. On this Italian island, the local language is incomprehensible to all other Italians. An island with one of Europe’s most stunning coastlines; its waters teem with fish; its golden sands disappear into oceans of blue; its rugged mountains are covered with flocks of sheep producing cheese so pungent that your palate will never forget.
Sardinia is unique and the perfect place for a yacht charter holiday that mixes excitement with the exotic.
During the summer, yacht charters flock to Sardinia. With an average of 300 days of sunshine per year, concentrated from April to September, and warm winds off the African continent, the Sardinian climate, can be quite delightful and not quite as hot as other yacht charter areas in the Mediterranean.
You’ll find, despite their weird and wonderful ways, that the Sardinian ports compete rather well with the Mediterranean’s other chic hot spots. Summers tend to attract lovely warm days and crowds of millionaires, supermodels, and luxury yachts, especially to the prestigious Yacht Club Costa Smeralda at Porto Cervo, near Olbia. This spectacular and unrivaled island presents a variety of shapes. In fact, Sardinia is a surprising blend of “diversities” originating from its complex natural, historical, and cultural richness, as it has been, since the most ancient ages, a meeting point for the various cultures of the populations that have landed on and colonized its coasts.
North Sardinia
North Sardinia is the temple of fun. Porto Cervo and Porto Rotondo, with their nightlife, chic restaurants, and boutiques, attract the international jet set. In the northern part of the island, between Alghero and Olbia, you will also find a rich coastline with alternating beaches and bays while the landscape is predominantly rocky. A fantastic journey along the northern irregular coasts of Sardinia, where nature has been wonderfully molded by civilization, the roots of which stretch back at the time of the first inhabitants of the Mediterranean.
Porto Cervo, the heart of the Emerald Coast, is the exclusive holiday place favored by the rich and famous who come to this paradise to enjoy the sea and the nightlife. The architecture of this summer spot fits with its surroundings, villas with dry stone walls and immaculately kept gardens scattered with Mediterranean vegetation and low palm trees. Porto Cervo has two harbors; Porto Vecchio (Old Port) is on the South-eastern side and dates back to the 1960s’; the new harbor is equipped with the most up-to-date infrastructures to cater the international marine traffic.
At the height of summer, the harbors become literally the showroom of the most beautiful and biggest yachts that money can buy, many tourists walk past the yachts admiring such excess. Anyone not wanting to use the port may anchor in the bay, where one can enjoy total privacy. Porto Cervo has a Yacht Club, some exclusive hotels and restaurants, such as the renowned Cala di Volpe, great shops, and numerous night bars and clubs. The nightlife revolves around La Piazzetta. For golf lovers, there is one of the greatest golf courts in the world. Set between the sapphire bays of Pevero and Cala di Volpe, Pevero is the supreme masterpiece of the greatest of American golf designers, Robert Trent Jones. Described by several golf writers as ‘the most beautiful place to play golf in the world, the course is also splendidly demanding.
La Maddalena
La Maddalena is the most extended island and is mostly leveled. Along the southern coast lies the city of La Maddalena, delimited in the western part by the cape of Punta Tegge and in the eastern part by the ample bay of Cala Camicia and Punta Moneta; facing this bay, at a distance of 500 meters, is the island of Santo Stefano. The natural environment is still wild, and its coasts shelter small beaches overlooking fabulous waters. Going north, the coastline forms the coves of Spalmatore and Porto Massimo, then the cape of Marginetto with Point Marginetto, the most northern of La Maddalena. The coast goes back down southwest, forming, the peninsula of Abbatoggia, and the deep gulf of Monti di Rena; the granite, here, is finely levigated by the violent west wind and forms vast sandy dunes. You’ll find the same phenomenon going just a little further south, past Punta Abbatoggia and past the little island with the same name, in the area of Spiaggia Bassa or Trinità, where the sandy landscape is even more fascinating, with its dunes of very fine white sand. The coastline continues with the steep massif of Guardia Majore, penetrating just a little further in the bay of Cala Inferno, rocky and irregular; from there, it goes back up west and then turns south with Punta Testiccioli. The whole area is one of the most inaccessible, and the granite is marked by the sea’s fury and by the strong north winds. A good refuge is Cala Francese, just a little further south, overlooked by a large granite quarry.
Caprera Island
Caprera island is smaller than la Maddalena, but its total coastline is longer, 45,5 km, because of the long and narrow cape of granite that stretches to Punta Rossa, the seat of a Navy Military base since 1887. The extreme southern coast of Caprera is a morphologically very frail and unsteady area; a profound opening of the sea forms the marvelous Porto Palma. The entire eastern coast of Caprera and also the northern one are formed by striking cliffs of granite, almost totally unaccessible, so evocative and beautiful, formed by the more steep side of the long massif of Mount Teialone.
The Island of Asinara
The Island of Asinara, situated in the north-western part of Sardinia, has an extension of 5.200 ha., while the sea’s surface extension is 21.000 ha. The coastline is 110 km long. It belongs to the Government and is part of the territory of the town of Porto Torres. The island is 17,5 km. long and its maximum width is 6,14 km. The western part is characterized by high schistose falaises, steep rocky slopes with numerous landslides and ravines, large canals, and crevices, while in the eastern part, you’ll find wide bays and small beaches with the typical rough sand of the granite morphology with ample rocky outcrops. This island is famous for its unique landscape and for the environmental beauties, but also mostly for the rich wildlife: many are the species living on the island, and some are very rare and, unfortunately, threatened with extinction.
The Gulf of Angels
The Gulf of Angels (Golfo degli Angeli) is a splendid scenery space that appears from the sea on the south side of Sardinia, limited by Pula and Nora from the west and by the seaside resorts of Villasimius on the east, through the extreme Capo Carbonara in front of which a remote and wild Isola dei Cavoli is visible.
Cagliari
Cagliari is the principal town, hidden like a piece of precious jewelry in the center of the gulf. The coasts of the Gulf form interminable beaches with thin and bright sand. Across the panoramic street with spectacular cliffs and expanses of crystal and transparent water, the easter bow unties through beautiful beaches and bays of Capitana, Torre Delle Stelle, Solanas, and Capo Carbonara, Isola dei Cavoli. There are several sports activities, from typical water sports (including diving and snorkeling) to trekking, horse riding, and golf.
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