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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