Without a car
Sardinia by train
3 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.
The towns
Alghero
Province: Sassari · 7 m
The Catalan city of northwest Sardinia, repopulated by Peter IV of Aragon in 1354.
Iglesias
Province: Sulcis Iglesiente · 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.
From elsewhere in Italy
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Moneglia
Province: Genova
A bay on the Riviera di Levante, closed by two wooded headlands.
Deiva Marina
Province: La Spezia
A Riviera di Levante seaside commune reachable by sea only after the 1874 railway.
San Miniato
Province: Pisa
The hilltop town between Pisa and Florence that produces a quarter of Tuscany's white truffles and once held the imperial seat of Otto I.
Monteverde
Province: Avellino
A 740-meter borgo on the Apulian border of Irpinia, closer to Foggia than to its own provincial capital.
Alagna Valsesia
Province: Vercelli
A Walser village at 1,191 meters, at the head of the Valsesia, known to off-piste skiers worldwide.