Bandiera Blu
Bandiera Blu in Sardinia
7 towns
Sardinia holds 7 Bandiera Blu sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, Ogliastra, and Oristano provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are La Maddalena, Oristano, and Badesi. 4 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
La Maddalena
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 19 m
The only inhabited town of a sixty-island granite archipelago between Sardinia and Corsica, and the place Giuseppe Garibaldi chose to die.
Oristano
Province: Oristano · 5 m
The old capital of the Giudicato di Arborea, city of Eleonora and the Carta de Logu, host of Sa Sartiglia equestrian joust at Carnival.
Badesi
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 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.
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.
Santa Teresa Gallura
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 44 m
The northernmost town in Sardinia, founded in 1808 on a Turin-style grid above the Strait of Bonifacio and 11 kilometers from Corsica.
Tortolì
Province: Ogliastra · 15 m
Co-capital of Ogliastra on the central-east coast, paired with the port of Arbatax and its red porphyry cliffs.
Palau
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna · 5 m
The Gallura port with a weather-shaped granite bear on the headland that gave the town its emblem.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Cirò
Province: Crotone
A hill village at 351 meters above the Ionian, the historic heart of Calabria's oldest wine appellation.
Radicofani
Province: Siena
The Val d'Orcia's basalt watchtower: a 1,044-resident UNESCO-inscribed borgo at 814m on a volcanic outcrop visible across half of southern Tuscany, crowned by an outlaw's fortress that Dante and Boccaccio both wrote into their pages.
Esanatoglia
Province: Macerata
A medieval village of seven bell towers at 467 meters on the Marche-Umbria border, sitting at the source of the Esino river.
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Province: Perugia
A near-peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Trasimeno, on the road Hannibal closed when he ambushed the Romans in 217 BC.
L'Aquila
Province: L'Aquila
The regional capital at 721 meters, founded by Frederick II around 1240 and still reconstructing after the 2009 earthquake.