Day trips
Day trips from Cagliari
6 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Sardara is 57 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
The towns
Sardara
Province: Medio Campidano · 163 m
57 minutes from Cagliari. A Campidano thermal town where Nuragic well-temples, Roman Aquae Neapolitanae and a hilltop Arborea castle share the same hot springs.
Iglesias
Province: Sulcis Iglesiente · 200 m
62 minutes from Cagliari. Sardinia's medieval mining capital: a 25,000-resident Pisan-Aragonese walled town in the Sulcis-Iglesiente metalliferous district, with an intact Gothic centro storico and UNESCO-recognised mining heritage at Monteponi just outside town.
Orroli
Province: Cagliari · 550 m
66 minutes from Cagliari. A Sarcidano village at 550 meters on the Pranemuru basalt plateau, home of the Nuraghe Arrubiu, the only five-tower nuraghe in Sardinia.
Masullas
Province: Oristano · 129 m
67 minutes from Cagliari. A Marmilla village at 129 meters where a 17th-century Capuchin convent houses fossils, minerals, and volcanic history.
Barumini
Province: Medio Campidano · 202 m
68 minutes from Cagliari. A Marmilla village whose nuraghe became Sardegna's first UNESCO site.
Oristano
Province: Oristano · 5 m
80 minutes from Cagliari. The old capital of the Giudicato di Arborea, city of Eleonora and the Carta de Logu, host of Sa Sartiglia equestrian joust at Carnival.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Picinisco
Province: Frosinone
A medieval village at 725 meters on the eastern edge of Lazio, the source of much of Italo-Scottish emigration.
Piana degli Albanesi
Province: Palermo
The principal Arbëresh town of Sicily at 720 meters, founded in the fifteenth century by Albanians fleeing the Ottomans and still speaking arbëresh.
Roccamandolfi
Province: Isernia
At 850 meters at the foot of Monte Miletto, a Matese village of brigand legends, Lombard ruins, and a Tibetan bridge over the Callora canyon.
Fonni
Province: Nuoro
The highest village in Sardinia at 1,000 meters on the Gennargentu, with ski lifts climbing above the town and the Madonna dei Martiri sanctuary at its edge.
Orosei
Province: Nuoro
A small Baroque town at 19 meters in the Cedrino valley, two kilometers from the limestone gulf whose southern coves are reached only by boat.