CAGLIARI, THE GULF OF ANGELS. Arrival and meeting with our Tour Leader to settle in the reserved rooms at the hotel. Welcome cocktail and panoramic visit of the lively city and its liberty style buildings on the seafront. Dinner and overnight stay at hotel.

CAGLIARI, ON THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARISTEO. After breakfast visit the Archeological National Museum to be introduced to the island's historic context through testimonies of nuraghi and excavations. We go on to visit the Regal Palace, the Archbishop’s palace and the Cathedral walking through the Ghetto. From the terrace of the bastion Saint Remy, we reach Stampace, an ancient neighbourhoods where to feel historic emotions among the Church of Sant'Efisio and the archaeological crypt of Santa Restituta. Lunch in a restaurant at the port to taste fish ravioli with squid. Free afternoon for further discoveries and shopping at many handcraft boutiques. Dinner and overnight stay at hotel.

BARUMINI, NURAGHI AND BRONZE AGE LIFE. Breakfast and excursion to Barumini archaeological site, the best Nuraghi complex of Bronze Age. We walk with our guide to Nuraxi hilltop, up to the central tower and the four towers on the cardinal points at the centre of a mural structure used to protect the village. We discover the first forms of social life on the island, even before the Carthaginian invasion and Roman occupation. Lunch at a restaurant with roast pig, lamb with thistles and almond desserts. We continue towards the Western side of the island to admire other nuraghi sites distributed in uncontaminated landscape, up to Oristano where we stay in a typical rural inn. Dinner and overnight.

ORISTANO, FROM THE PHOENICIANS TO ELEONORA D’ARBOREA. Breakfast and visit to the mysterious Phoenician site of Thanos. We don't not miss a visit to the artistic Oristano, the Byzantine city and its majestic Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. Our guide will tell about medieval vicissitudes and the fascinating Eleonora d’ Arborea, promoter of one of the first codes of written laws in Europe: the Carta de Logu. Typical lunch in a farm. Afternoon dedicated to an extra virgin olive oil tasting or a swim in the crystal clear water of the small coves. Dinner and overnight stay at hotel.

ALGHERO, CAPITAL OF THE CORAL RIVIERA. Breakfast and mini cruise to the Coral Riviera. We live an unforgettable experience discovering the naturalistic beauties of the Capo Caccia and Neptune' s Cave. A swim at the limpid and emerald green Cala della Dragunara, covered by fine golden. Lunch with seafood spaghetti. Getting back to Alghero, we visit the precious Museum of Coral that shows extraordinary coral collections, the red gold. Free time to look at applications of goldsmith in reef jewelry shops on the seafront. Dinner and overnight stay.

SELLA AND MOSCA, THE WINE MUSEUM. Breakfast and visit to the famous wine estate of Sella & Mosca. We find an ethnographic museum about traditions of Sardiniawinery. An expert guide will take us on a tasting of Cannonau, Vermentino and other extraordinary wines from Sardinia. Departure.

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