Città del Vino
Città del Vino in Sardinia
11 towns
Sardinia has 11 Città del Vino communes in our index. Most cluster in the Nuoro, Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, and Oristano provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Oliena, Alghero, and Atzara. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
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.
Alghero
Province: Sassari · 7 m
The Catalan city of northwest Sardinia, repopulated by Peter IV of Aragon in 1354.
Atzara
Province: Nuoro · 553 m
A Mandrolisai wine village on the western Gennargentu, painted in the early twentieth century by Spanish costumbristas and the Sardinian Scuola di Atzara.
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.
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.
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.
Dorgali
Province: Nuoro · 387 m
A Supramonte town at 387 meters, with a coastal frazione, a Nuragic village hidden in a sinkhole, and a limestone gorge cut through the massif to the south.
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.
Jerzu
Province: Ogliastra · 450 m
The Cannonau capital of Ogliastra, perched at 450 meters in the eastern Ogliastra interior.
Mamoiada
Province: Nuoro · 644 m
The Barbagia village where the Mamuthones come out on January 17, twelve men in black sheepskins carrying thirty kilos of cowbells.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Cervo
Province: Imperia
A hilltop village on the Riviera di Ponente built by coral fishermen, named for the Roman mansio on the Via Julia Augusta.
Cherasco
Province: Cuneo
A walled grid-plan town on the river terrace where the Stura di Demonte meets the Tanaro, on the western edge of the Langhe.
Trinitapoli
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani
A Tavoliere town between the Saline di Margherita and the Ofanto, sitting on a Bronze Age sanctuary that still surprises archaeologists.
Pico
Province: Frosinone
Tommaso Landolfi's home town, a 2,588-resident Ciociaria borgo at 220m between Rome and Naples, with a BPB-inscribed medieval centro and a castle turned literary museum.
Tignale
Province: Brescia
A six-hamlet commune on a high terrace above Lake Garda's western shore, anchored by a clifftop sanctuary and the last working limonaie north of Salò.