Sardinia, Italy · Europe
Poggio dei Pini sits on the route: 5 minutes from La Maddalena, 32km from Costa del Sud Panoramic Road (SP71).
Poggio dei Pini is in Sardinia, Italy, with about 2,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is La Maddalena, about 4 km away.
Poggio dei Pini, literally “Pine Knoll” is a locality situated in south-west Sardinia, about 15 km from Cagliari, the island's capital. It is a frazione of the municipality Capoterra.
The village, with about 4,000 inhabitants, is of a type unique in Sardinia, and unusual in Italy. It is not an ancient settlement;Read more
rather it was founded in the 1960s and 1970s when a group of people who loved nature and the countryside decided to make it their home. Gradually the infrastructure was developed and residents arrived. The community is organised as a cooperative which, it is said, has resulted in a higher standard of services that would otherwise have been expected.
Poggio dei Pini lies within a hollow formed by the mountainous arc of Monte Arrubiu, Monte Santa Barbara and Monte Pauliara. The countryside, already attractive, was enhanced by planting a luxuriant pine wood around a small lake. The sea is some 4 km to the east; the beaches of Nora (20 km) and Chia (35 km) can be reached by the SS. 195. Nearby is the designated park and nature reserve, the mountainous "Parco Del Sulcis" forest area, a popular location for walking, trekking and mountain biking.
Two eighteenth-century edifices stand out in this area: the churches of Santa Barbara and of San Girolamo (Saint Jerome). The former is especially an object of devotion as, according to local legend, it was in this neighbourhood that Saint Barbara was decapitated.
Poggio dei Pini is notable as the former home of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari. Since the observatory relocated, the site has no become popular with the Sardinian Amateur Astronomers Association.
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Within an hour or so of Poggio dei Pini: Costa del Sud Panoramic Road (SP71) (32 km), Porto Flavia (53 km).
The nearest famous roads are Costa del Sud Panoramic Road (SP71) and Gulf of Orosei Coast Road.
Poggio dei Pini is in Sardinia, Italy, about 4 km from La Maddalena.
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ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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coastal drive
Sardinia's answer to the Amalfi Coast: a 25 km panoramic road between Chia and Teulada skimming turquoise coves, Saracen watchtowers and granite headlands on the island's wild southern shore.
32 km · about 35 min drive
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Mine gallery that punches out of a 50-metre sea cliff at Masua, engineered in 1924 to load zinc ore directly onto ships below: facing the 133-m Pan di Zucchero sea stack. Guided tours walk the tunnel to the cliff-face balcony.
53 km · about 60 min drive
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