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Stintino & Environs

Located to the North-West Of Sardinia, the promontory Capo Falcone is commonly considered a sort of paradise for its natural beauty.

Aerial sight of Capofalcone

The sea of La Pelosa beach is one of the best sea you can find in Italy and likely not only in Italy, for the cyan colour that makes it looking like a swimming pool more than a sea and clearness and purity that you can hardly find in other places, even in Sardinia. The wide spread of maquis is also interesting from the faunistic point of view.
In front of the promontory you can see the island of Asinara, formerly a penal colony and only from 1998 a nature reserve.
The most famous village in this area is Stintino , that used to be a fishing based village in the past while now tourism is the main resource. On the northern coast, about 30 km. far from Stintino, there is Porto Torres, the most important town in that area after the chief town of the province, Sassari. Besides the importance of the port for the transportation link of the island with Genoa and Livorno, the town is also important from the archaeological point of view and for a very interesting church of XI century.
Downwards in the western cost, before reaching Alghero, we find a place important from the historical point of view called Argentiera where there is an old silver mine and the old village of the miners.

The Pelosa tower, the Piana island and from a distance the Asinara Island