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La
Pelosa is
one of the most
beautiful beaches of Sardinia,
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| The
sea of Pelosa beach |
but a lot of people now considered
it one of the most attractive places in Italy -and not only in Italy-
for the beauty of the sea. Its cyan color and transparencies and
the very fine white sand makes it looking like a tropical beach
rather than a mediterranean one. Besides absence of tropical fishes,
vegetation remind us we are in Sardinia; not palms, but meditteranean
scrub just outside the beach but in some cases also on the beach
itself.
Located in the Asinara gulf to the North-East of Capo Falcone, La
Pelosa beach is protected from the open sea by a natural
barrier made by the stacks of Capo
Falcone, by the Piana island e by Asinara island (you can find a
picture in the page <Stintino & outskirts>).
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| The
Pelosa Tower in front of the beach |
The sea is always flat also when the mistral, rather frequent in
these places, blows. In front of the beach there is the very small
isle with the characteristic aragonese tower of Pelosa built in
1578 for defending the coastal and that gives the name to the beach.
It is reacheable by foot following a natural ford. Beyond you can
see another small island called Piana that was used in the past
as
pasture for livestock; the animals (tipically cows) was taken to
the island by swimming dragged by a boat due to the nearness of
the island to the coast. This island is still a private estate.
To the same direction, beyond the island Piana you can distinguish
the profile of the rocky coast of Asinara. |
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