SURROUNDINGS The caves of Neptune The Caves of Neptune are 25 km.away from Alghero, an ancient medieval aragonese town, and cover a surface of about 2500 mts. The Caves can be reached by boat, from Alghero’s touristic harbour or, as an alternative, by car or by bus untill the promontory of Capo Caccia to go on through the “Escala of Cabirol”, a starcase with 656 steps from which the visitor can admire wonderful striking landscapes. Every year, thousands of tourists visit the caves to see its marvellous Lamarmora salted lake embellished by stalactites, stalagmites, enourmous columns and astonishing concretions due to the corroding action of water through the millenniums. Alghero is 30 mins away from Porto Torres and can be easily reached by bus or by car. Castelsardo Castelsardo, wonderful medieval village situated on the Gulf of the Asinara, was founded in the Middle Ages on a trachytic promontory from which the Doria’s genoese dinasty castle dominated, and still does, the whole Gulf. The village is well known for its extremely fine sardinian handicrafts works such as ceramics, gold filigree, flax etc. Castelsardo allows the visitor to have an artistic and cultural route by visiting the Doria’s Castle, the ancient village, Saint. Antonio Abate Cathedral, the bell tower and the saracen tower.
Sassari The Candelieri “La Faradda”, local name used by the natives of Sassari to indicate the “Candelieri”, their most important religious holiday, occurs on August 14 and it has a particular significance as it’s the day in which they renew their faith to Our Lady. Its origins are medievals and comes from a deep need to thank Our Lady for saving the town from the plague. The holiday’s main body is constitued by the “Gremi”, old associations which represent craftmen and trades, who walk along the old town’s streets carrying on enormous candles. The Sardinian Ride The most famous sardinian holiday and the only one not to have a religious value is the “Cavalcata sarda”. It was first organized in 1899 to welcome King Umberto I and Queen Caterina visit to Sardinia. Since then, it has been represented every year in May to honour the Savoia Family till the end of their Kingdom. Nowadays several dozens of sardinian folk groups come from every corner of the island to participate and join the Cavalcata, a representation of sardinian traditions which is getting more and more international.

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