• Scuba diving along the Villasimius coast
  

  
  The waters are clear and blue, with a very comfortable temperature in the summer, there are many under water caves and caverns and the waters teem with life.There’s always something disturbing and yet beautiful about diving amongst a shipwreck and touching history with your own hands.
  
  

• The Costa Smeralda
  

  
  It is the one of the best sailing area in the western Mediterranean, lies on the North-Eastern coast of the isle of Sardinia. It is an ideal sea-side resort, world renowned for its unique natural beauty and for the impeccably refined development, carried out by His Highness the Aga Khan, in perfect harmony with the natural environment.
  
  

• Horseback Riding
  

  
  Sardinia has a long tradition of horse riding. The Sardinian Anglo-Arab is a horse breed that was established in Sardinia. Nowadays there are several farms and B&Bs offering horseback riding or horse trekking tours. Riding through woods an along beaches is a very popular tourists attraction.
  
  

• Ancient Roman ruins in Nora
  

  
  According to legend, Nora was founded by a group of Iberians from Tartessus led by Norax, a mythological hero son of Hermes. It is believed to be the first town founded in Sardinia and to have been settled by the ancient Sherden or the Nuraghi people, and later colonized by Phoenicians. The ruins of Nora function as an open-air museum, and the remains of the theatre is occasionally used for concerts in the summer.
  
  

• National Park of the Asinara island
  

  
  Asinara was created as a self-contained National Park in 1997. It hosted a prison for many years. The old prison structure, which was still in use up to only a few years ago, is present on the island. Mediterranean vegetation, also known as the Mediterranean maquis, completely covers the island although fires and other sources of environmental degradation have thinned out the vegetation. The island also holds a limited number of small Albino donkeys, which are a special yet mysterious characteristic of the Park, because the origin of these animals is unknown.
  
  

• Neptune's Grotto
  

  
  The Neptune Caves in Alghero which attract more than 150,000 visitors a year from all over the world are drawn by the wonderful spectacle of curious geological formations and the clear waters of the internal lake, as well as by the caves' historical importance. A series of natural formations within makes these caves some of the most interesting and important in the Mediterranean basin.
  
  

• Sassari
  

  
  Sassari is second-largest and one of the oldest cities on the island. Since its origins at the turn of the 12th century, Sassari has been ruled by the Giudicato of Torres, the Pisans, the Sassaresi themselves in alliance with Genoa, the Aragonese and the Spanish, all of whom have contributed to Sassari's historical and artistic heritage. Sassari is a city rich in art, culture and history, and is well known for its beautiful palazzi, the Fountain of the Rosello, and its elegant neoclassical architecture, such as Piazza d'Italia (Italy Square) and the Teatro Civico (Civic Theatre).
  
  

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