Bandiera Arancione
Bandiera Arancione in Sardinia
6 towns
Sardinia carries 6 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. They are in the Nuoro, Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, and Medio Campidano provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Sardara, Oliena, and Galtellì. 3 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Sardara
Province: Medio Campidano · 163 m
A Campidano thermal town where Nuragic well-temples, Roman Aquae Neapolitanae and a hilltop Arborea castle share the same hot springs.
Oliena
Province: Nuoro · 380 m
A Supramonte village at the foot of the massif's highest peak, source of Cannonau Nepente, base camp for Tiscali and the Lanaitto valley.
Galtellì
Province: Nuoro · 49 m
Grazia Deledda's 'Canne al vento' set: a 2,374-resident Baronia borgo in Sardinia's northeast, with the entire centro recognized as the Parco Letterario Grazia Deledda for being the literal setting of her 1913 Nobel-trajectory novel.
Tempio Pausania
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 566 m
The granite capital of Gallura at the foot of Monte Limbara, known for cork, Vermentino DOCG and the largest Carnival in northern Sardinia.
Aggius
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 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.
Gavoi
Province: Nuoro · 777 m
A 777-meter Barbagia hilltop village above Lake Gusana with a Bandiera Arancione of the Touring Club, the country's most-attended summer literary festival (L'Isola delle Storie), and the PDO Fiore Sardo pecorino made here for at least three centuries.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Bevagna
Province: Perugia
Roman Mevania on the Umbrian plain at 225 meters, four medieval quarters that compete every June in a reconstructed market of the 13th century.
Mercogliano
Province: Avellino
A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above.
Macugnaga
Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
A Walser village at 1,327 meters at the foot of the east wall of Monte Rosa, founded in the 13th century by colonists from Valais.
Vogogna
Province: Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
An Ossola medieval capital at 226 meters on the Toce, with a castle of 1348 and five centuries as seat of the lower valley's jurisdiction.
Tremezzina
Province: Como
The 2014 merger of four Lake Como villages that holds Villa Carlotta, Isola Comacina and the UNESCO Sacro Monte di Ossuccio.