• Bitan - Daily Tours - Embark on a full-day tour starting from Cagliari, traveling for 2.5 hours in a minivan through the stunning Sardinian countryside towards the island’s northwest.
• Castello dei Doria - Possibly the legendary Tibula of Roman times, by the Middle Ages, it had become an impenetrable fortress with thick walls and 17 towers, until modern weaponry emerged. The original core of Castelsardo developed around the Doria castle, traditionally dated to 1102 but likely built in the late 13th century. Today, it houses the charming Museo dell’Intreccio Mediterraneo (Museum of the Crossroads of the Mediterranean), one of Sardinia’s most visited museums. In the early 16th century, the castle was renamed Castillo Aragonés and became the diocesan seat.
• Cattedrale di Sant’Antonio Abate e Museum Ampuriense - Renamed Castillo Aragonés in the early 16th century, the castle served as the bishopric seat until the Cathedral of Sant’Antonio Abate was constructed in 1586. This magnificent building features a bell tower overlooking the sea, a gleaming ceramic dome, and crypts in the basement that house the Maestro di Castelsardo museum.
• Castelsardo - Renamed during the Savoy dynasty, the town is part of the Most Beautiful Towns of Italy Association, with its impressive fortifications, bastions, and steep stairs remaining intact. The city tour includes must-see visits to its religious and historical buildings, such as the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the Benedictine monastery, the diocese, palazzo La Loggia (City Hall since 1111), and Palazzo Eleonora d’Arborea.

The town’s most exclusive events occur during Holy Week, featuring Spanish-influenced religious rites that involve nearly everyone. Lunissanti, on the Monday after Palm Sunday, is particularly picturesque at dawn with a long procession to the Basilica of Nostra Signora di Tergu. After sunset, the town is lit by torches, and sacred chanting fills the air. The Prucissioni on Holy Thursday and Lu Lcravamentu on Friday are also highlights. The town celebrates its patron saint, St. Anthony, on January 17 with large bonfires.
Artistic handicrafts are a distinctive feature of Sardinia, with weaving being a major component. Skilled hands have perfected the art of wicker basket-making over centuries, with shapes varying by material and location: Flussio, Montresta, Ollolai, and Sennori use asphodelus, while lowland areas near ponds or the sea, like Castelsardo, San Vero Milis, and Sinnai, use rushes, grain, or Mediterranean dwarf palm. Women have passed down weaving secrets, creating various shapes based on the function of the wicker containers, mixing colored inserts, extraordinary designs, and traditional patterns.

• Roccia dell’Elefante - Elephant Rock is a large trachyte stone shaped like an elephant, located beside State Road 134, just outside Castelsardo. Originally part of Monte Casteddazzu’s rocky complex, it broke off and rolled down the valley. Erosion and popular imagination shaped it into an elephant with its trunk facing the road, making it a local attraction. Also known as Sa Pedra Pertunta (the perforated rock), it features numerous openings and holes.
  Inside, two Domus de Janas (Sardinian chamber tombs) from the Neolithic period contain significant reliefs and primitive symbols from the animal and plant worlds. The rock’s irregularly shaped chambers have relief decorations, cow horns, and bullheads on a low base formed in the rock. Elephant Rock is thus a natural curiosity intertwined with local history and prehistory.
• Altare Monte d’Accoddi - Although not directly related, it resembles contemporary Mesopotamian temples and represents the ‘oriental’ belief in the union of heaven and earth. The Monte d’Accoddi temple, dating back five thousand years, is a unique European ziggurat. Discovered in the mid-20th century, it was a pyramid altar covered with earth, possibly dedicated to a female deity. Legend says it was built by a prince-priest from the Middle East. The ziggurat is a Sun temple, also dedicated to the Moon.

The pre-Nuragic sanctuary is located in Nurra, along the old State Highway 131 towards Porto Torres, in Sassari’s territory, 11 kilometers from the island’s northern capital. The monument played a central role in society, evolving from the second half of the 4th millennium BC. The altar comprises two phases: the ‘red temple’ (3500-2900 BC) and the ‘terraced temple’ (around 2700 BC) of the Abealzu-Filigosa culture. The first phase included villages of quadrangular huts, a Domus de Janas necropolis, an elongated menhir, a slab with seven holes, and spheroidal stones used in sacrificial rituals. The Ozieri culture built a pyramidal platform with a rectangular room plastered and painted in ochre, yellow, and black. Around 2800 BC, the ‘red temple’ was buried under earth, stones, and limestone marlstone, and a new terraced pyramidal platform was built, accessible by a long ramp. The second sanctuary resembles an open-air ziggurat altar. The structure covers 1,600 square meters and rises almost six meters. Inside is an unexplored room, possibly containing a sacred bed for life and fertility rituals. Surrounding the site are village remains with intact ceramics, safeguarded in the Sanna archaeological museum. The site was abandoned at the beginning of the ancient Bronze Age (1800 BC) and occasionally reused for burials.

• Province of Cagliari - Your local guide will personalize the tour, sharing expertise and amusing anecdotes before driving you back to your hotel.

• Private tour
• Complimentary on-board Wi-Fi
• Hotel pickup and drop-off
• Bottled water provided
• Round-trip private transfer
• Air-conditioned minivan transportation

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