Day trips
Day trips from Cagliari
5 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Sardara is 59 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
Sardara
Province: Sud Sardegna · 163 m
59 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: Sud Sardegna · 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.
Barumini
Province: Sud Sardegna · 202 m
69 minutes from Cagliari. A Marmilla village whose nuraghe became Sardegna's first UNESCO site.
Masullas
Province: Oristano · 129 m
69 minutes from Cagliari. A Marmilla village at 129 meters where a 17th-century Capuchin convent houses fossils, minerals, and volcanic history.
Oristano
Province: Oristano · 5 m
81 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.
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From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns to discover
Arquà Petrarca
Province: Padova
The Euganean Hills village where Francesco Petrarca spent his last four years and died in 1374, renamed in his honor in 1868.
Samugheo
Province: Oristano
Sardinia's textile-weaving capital: a 2,757-resident Mandrolisai borgo where the MURATS regional textile museum, the Tessingiu woven-art biennale, and an active community of weavers on traditional looms keep a knot-stitch tradition alive.
Salò
Province: Brescia
On the deepest gulf of the lake, with the longest waterfront promenade and the cathedral of the Riviera di Salò.
Matelica
Province: Macerata
A Verdicchio town at 354 meters in the upper Esino valley, with a Roman marble globe in its archaeological museum.
Montecarlo
Province: Lucca
A walled hill village at 163 meters above the Lucca plain, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1333 and named for him, surrounded by twenty wineries.