Without a car
Sardinia by train
12 towns
Towns in this region where we confirmed an active station. Check the timetable before you go: a station on the map is not the same as a useful service.
Aggius
Province: Sassari · 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.
Alghero
Province: Sassari · 7 m
The Catalan city of northwest Sardinia, repopulated by Peter IV of Aragon in 1354.
Aritzo
Province: Nuoro · 800 m
A Mandrolisai mountain village at 800 meters in chestnut and hazelnut forest, where snow once travelled out in straw and came back as lemon sorbet.
Barumini
Province: Sud Sardegna · 202 m
A Marmilla village whose nuraghe became Sardegna's first UNESCO site.
Iglesias
Province: Sud Sardegna · 200 m
Sardinia's medieval mining capital: a 25,000-resident Pisan-Aragonese walled town in the Sulcis-Iglesiente metalliferous district, with an intact Gothic centro storico and UNESCO-recognised mining heritage at Monteponi just outside town.
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.
Orroli
Province: Sud Sardegna · 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.
Palau
Province: Sassari · 5 m
The Gallura port with a weather-shaped granite bear on the headland that gave the town its emblem.
Sadali
Province: Sud Sardegna · 750 m
A Barbagia di Seulo borgo at 750 meters with the only waterfall in Sardegna that drops through the inhabited centre.
Tempio Pausania
Province: Sassari · 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.
Tortolì
Province: Nuoro · 15 m
Co-capital of Ogliastra on the central-east coast, paired with the port of Arbatax and its red porphyry cliffs.
Ulassai
Province: Nuoro · 775 m
The highest village in Ogliastra, at 775 meters on a ledge beneath the Tacchi.
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Giano dell'Umbria
Province: Perugia
A hill commune between Foligno, Spoleto and Todi, anchored by a Romanesque abbey built over the tomb of a fourth-century martyr.
Assisi
Province: Perugia
A pink limestone town at 424 meters on the western flank of a mountain above the plain, the birthplace of Francis and a UNESCO site since 2000.
Servigliano
Province: Fermo
An eighteenth-century ideal city at 215 meters in the Tenna valley, rebuilt by papal commission on a 137-by-144-meter quadrangle after the old hill village collapsed.
Labro
Province: Rieti
A 355-person stone borgo at 628 meters, restored since the 1960s by a Belgian architect and his descendants.
San Nicola Arcella
Province: Cosenza
A cliff village above the Tyrrhenian Riviera dei Cedri, where a sea arch fronts a cove only reachable on foot or by boat.