Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Sardinia
9 towns
Sardinia holds 9 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Nuoro, Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, and Ogliastra provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are La Maddalena, Oliena, and Atzara. 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fonni
Province: Nuoro · 1,000 m
The highest village in Sardinia at 1,000 meters on the Gennargentu, with ski lifts climbing above the town and the Madonna dei Martiri sanctuary at its edge.
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.
Baunei
Province: Ogliastra · 480 m
A village at 480 meters on the Monte Santo limestone ridge, its territory holding a national-monument beach and a trek regularly called Italy's hardest.
Orgosolo
Province: Nuoro · 620 m
A Barbagia village at 620 meters with over 150 political murals painted on its walls since the 1969 Pratobello revolt.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Percile
Province: Roma
A 217-person medieval borgo at 575 meters, built on a rocky spur with two karst lakes hidden in the woods above it.
Forte dei Marmi
Province: Lucca
The Versilia luxury beach built around an eighteenth-century marble-loading fort, with 99 bagni concessions and a Wednesday market that draws Milan.
Arquata del Tronto
Province: Ascoli Piceno
At 777 meters between two national parks, the Marche commune levelled by the 2016 earthquakes and still rebuilding nine years on.
Feltre
Province: Belluno
A Renaissance city at 325 meters in the Belluno Prealps, rebuilt after 1510 as the vertical village it remains.
Praia a Mare
Province: Cosenza
A Tyrrhenian beach town in the Gulf of Policastro, backed by mountains and facing an offshore island.