• 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 - Once 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, though likely built in the late 13th century. Today, it houses the charming Museo dell’Intreccio Mediterraneo, one of Sardinia’s most visited museums. In the early 16th century, the castle was renamed Castillo Aragonés and became the diocese’s seat.
• Cattedrale di Sant’Antonio Abate e Museum Ampuriense - In the early 16th century, the castle was renamed Castillo Aragonés and became the bishopric’s 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, home to the Maestro di Castelsardo museum.
• Castelsardo - During the Savoy dynasty’s reign, the town received its current name. It 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, serving as City Hall since 1111, and the Palazzo Eleonora d’Arborea.

The town’s most exclusive events occur during Holy Week, featuring Spanish-influenced religious rites involving nearly everyone. Lunissanti, on the Monday after Palm Sunday, is particularly heartfelt and picturesque, especially at dawn, when a long procession heads 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 the Lu Lcravamentu on Friday are also must-see events. The town celebrates its patron saint, St. Anthony, on January 17 with large bonfires.
Artistic handicraft is a distinctive feature of Sardinia, with weaving being a major component, perfected over centuries by skilled hands in wicker basket-making. Shapes vary based on material and location: in Flussio, Montresta, Ollolai, and Sennori. Asphodelus is the primary raw material, while in lowland areas near ponds or the sea, like Castelsardo, San Vero Milis, and Sinnai, rushes, grain, or Mediterranean dwarf palm are used for basket-making. All towns share an ancient tradition: women have passed down weaving secrets, creating various shapes based on the function of wicker containers, mixing colored inserts, extraordinary designs, and traditional patterns.

• Roccia dell’Elefante - Elephant Rock is a large trachyte stone mass shaped like an elephant, located beside State Road 134, just outside Castelsardo. Originally part of the Monte Casteddazzu rocky complex, it broke off and rolled down the valley along the road. As erosion occurred and popular imagination grew, the rock came to resemble an elephant with its trunk facing the road, earning its name and becoming a local attraction. However, Elephant Rock is also known as Sa Pedra Pertunta, the perforated rock, due to its appearance with openings and holes.
  Inside, two Domus de Janas (typical Sardinian chamber tombs) from the Neolithic period were established, featuring relevant and intriguing reliefs and primitive symbols from the animal and plant worlds. Inside the rock, numerous openings exist, almost all with antechambers. The walls of these irregularly shaped chambers have relief decorations, cow horns, and bullheads on a low base formed in the rock. Elephant Rock is not just a natural curiosity but also deeply connected with local history and prehistory.
• Altare Monte d’Accoddi - Although not directly related, it is identical to contemporary Mesopotamian temples and embodies the ‘oriental’ belief of the union between heaven and earth - the sacred areas on top of reliefs were considered the meeting point between man and divinity. The temple of Monte d’Accoddi (from the archaic Kodi, ‘stone’), dating back five thousand years, is a ziggurat unique in Europe due to its architectural singularity. Discovered in the mid-20th century, it was unearthed from a small hill that appeared ‘artificial,’ rising in the middle of a plain. It was a pyramid altar covered with earth, possibly dedicated to a female deity, carved in a granite stele alongside the monument. According to legend, it was built by a prince-priest who fled from the Middle East. It had one extraordinary feature: the ziggurat is the temple of the Sun, in turn, dedicated to the Moon.

The pre-Nuragic sanctuary stands in the center of Nurra, along the ‘old’ State Highway 131 (heading towards Porto Torres), in the territory of Sassari, eleven kilometers from the island’s northern capital. The monument played a central role in the society of the time, culminating in the evolution of a complex developed from the second half of the 4th millennium BC.
The altar is the superimposition of two phases, the ‘red temple’ in the final Neolithic period (3500-2900 BC), and the subsequent ‘terraced temple’ in the Aeneolithic period (about 2700 BC), as part of the Abealzu-Filigosa culture. In the first phase, several villages of quadrangular huts were part of a ceremonial hub, including a Domus de Janas necropolis. Alongside the Santuario, in their original positions, are an elongated menhir (four and a half meters high), an enormous slab with seven holes (perhaps used to tie up victims), and boulders of spheroidal stone, one five meters in circumference. All the rocks served a specific purpose in sacrificial rituals. At the end of the final Neolithic period, the people of the Ozieri culture built a platform in the shape of a pyramidal trunk, with sides at the base extending 27 meters, above which stood a rectangular room with surfaces plastered and painted in ochre and traces of yellow and black. Of the sacred area, the floor and remnants of a perimeter wall remain. Around 2800 BC, the ‘red temple’ structure, abandoned for about two centuries, was buried under a large filling of earth, stones, and limestone marlstone, in turn ‘covered’ with large stone blocks. A new large terraced pyramidal platform was built, with sides more extended than the previous one and accessible from a ramp forty meters long and thirteen to seven meters wide. The second sanctuary resembles the ziggurat with an ‘open-air’ altar. The structure occupies 1,600 square meters, rising almost six meters (initially perhaps eight). Inside is an unexplored room. Probably, as in Mesopotamia, it contains the sacred bed where the ritual of regeneration of life and fertility of the earth was carried out. Around are the remains of a village, where ceramics were found almost intact. To be admired are finds safeguarded in the Sanna archaeological museum, along with a model of the altar in its earliest form. The building retained its religious function for a millennium. At its base, remains of sacred meals and objects used in propitiatory rituals were discovered. The site was abandoned at the beginning of the ancient Bronze Age (1800 BC) and occasionally reused for burials.

• Province of Cagliari - The local guide is eager to make the tour as personal as possible. They will assist with their expertise and share amusing anecdotes before driving guests back to their hotel.

• Free wifi on board
• Hotel pickup and drop-off
• Bottled water
• Private tour
• Round-trip private transfer
• Transport by air-conditioned minivan

• Gratuities

• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• Due to availability, please be aware that for groups of more than 8 participants vehicles used in the excursions may be different from description and vary at the management’s discretion.
• Please be aware that beyond the time limit of the cancellation policy, it is not possible to amend or cancel bookings in any way, including health conditions. The only exception for changing dates is only with a certificate of positivity of Sars Covid 2.

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.