Borghi Autentici
Borghi Autentici in Sardinia
12 towns
Sardinia holds 12 Borghi Autentici sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Oristano, Nuoro, and Cagliari provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Sardara, Galtellì, and Aggius. 9 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.
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.
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.
Aritzo
Province: Nuoro · 800 m
A Mandrolisai mountain village at 800 meters in chestnut and hazelnut forest, where snow once traveled out in straw and came back as lemon sorbet.
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.
Orosei
Province: Nuoro · 19 m
A small Baroque town at 19 meters in the Cedrino valley, two kilometers from the limestone gulf whose southern coves are reached only by boat.
Samugheo
Province: Oristano · 380 m
Sardinia's textile-weaving capital: a 2,687-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.
Seneghe
Province: Oristano · 305 m
An olive-oil village on the eastern slope of Montiferru, 25 km from Oristano, that doubles as Sardegna's poetry capital each September.
Masullas
Province: Oristano · 129 m
A Marmilla village at 129 meters where a 17th-century Capuchin convent houses fossils, minerals, and volcanic history.
Montresta
Province: Oristano · 405 m
A Planargia hill village of 435 people founded in 1746 by Maniot Greek families who left Corsica for new land in Sardinia.
Orroli
Province: Cagliari · 550 m
A Sarcidano village at 550 meters on the Pranemuru basalt plateau, home of the Nuraghe Arrubiu, the only five-tower nuraghe in Sardinia.
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.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Innichen
Province: Bolzano
An Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 meters on the Austrian border, built around a Romanesque church and facing the Dolomites to the south.
Oria
Province: Brindisi
A Messapian acropolis between Taranto and Brindisi crowned by Frederick II's triangular castle, home to one of medieval Europe's oldest Jewish communities.
Barberino di Mugello
Province: Firenze
The Mugello gateway at 272 meters where the Medici family kept its first country villas, with Michelozzo's Cafaggiolo and the artificial Lago di Bilancino below.
Cerreto Guidi
Province: Firenze
The Medici hunting villa above the Padule di Fucecchio, where Cosimo I sent his court for the marshland game and Buontalenti built four ramps of stairs.
Irsina
Province: Matera
A 548-meter Bradano-valley hill town, called Montepeloso until 1895, whose cathedral holds a Renaissance rarity.