Instead of Alghero
Instead of Alghero: coastal towns and hill towns within 2 hours
Alghero is Catalan Sardinia with a walled seafront and an airport, and the airport is why the seafront is full.
The Coral Riviera north of it and the coast toward Bosa have the same cliffs, and inland the Logudoro has towns nobody flies to.
Coastal towns and hill towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Alghero by road, ranked by outside recognition. Alghero itself and the other famous places are left out. 10 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Alghero
Alghero · 42,281 residents · Sardegna
- CastelsardoSassari
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Alghero
- 1h 7m by car
- Residents
- 5,656
- When to go
- May–Oct
- AggiusSassari
Hill town · Bandiera Arancione
- From Alghero
- 1h 38m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 1,403
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
- BosaOristano
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Alghero
- 1h 12m by car
- Residents
- 7,487
- When to go
- May–Oct
- BadesiSassari
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Alghero
- 1h 26m by car
- Residents
- 1,821
- When to go
- May–Oct
- MontrestaOristano
Hill town · Borghi Autentici
- From Alghero
- 1h 1m by car
- Residents
- 438
- When to go
- Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
The 5 best-recognised of the 10 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Alghero. More of them follow below.
Castelsardo
Province: Sassari · 114 m
A Doria sea fortress at 114 meters above the Gulf of Asinara, Genoese from 1100, Aragonese from 1448, Savoyard from the 1700s.
Aggius
Province: Sassari · 514 m
A Gallura granite village at 514 meters under the Monti di Aggius, with the largest ethnographic museum in Sardegna and three centuries of bandit history.
Bosa
Province: Oristano · 10 m
A colour-washed riverside town on Sardinia's only navigable river, with a Malaspina castle on the hill and the tanneries of Sas Conzas along the Temo.
Badesi
Province: Sassari · 102 m
A Gallura commune founded by shepherding families in the 1700s, its territory running from a hilltop village down to eight kilometers of dunes at the Coghinas river mouth.
Montresta
Province: Oristano · 405 m
A Planargia hill village of 438 people founded in 1746 by Maniot Greek families who left Corsica for new land in Sardinia.
Sedini
Province: Sassari · 295 m
A 1,245-resident Anglona borgo built around a prehistoric rock-cut tomb complex carved into a limestone outcrop inside the village itself, later reused as a Romanesque church and now a small museum.
Cuglieri
Province: Oristano · 428 m
A Montiferru town at 428 meters, with the first minor basilica in Sardegna above it and the ruins of Punic Cornus below.
Santu Lussurgiu
Province: Oristano · 503 m
A Montiferru village at 503 meters where the Carnival horse race runs through a steep stone street and saddlery has been made since 1923.
Bolotana
Province: Nuoro · 472 m
A Marghine hill village at 472 meters between mountain and Tirso valley, with a Welsh railway engineer's villa hidden in a four-hectare exotic garden.
Stintino
Province: Sassari · 3 m
The northernmost tip of north-west Sardinia and the gateway to Asinara National Park, fronted by a shallow-shelf beach under an Aragonese watchtower.
Drive times measured by road from Alghero. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.