Santa Teresa di Gallura

In the extreme tip of north-eastern Sardinia, Santa Teresa di Gallura boasts a tourist port very frequented: from there it is possible to embark for Corsica or for the most beautiful islands of the Archipelago of the Maddalena. The whole coast, however, is characterized by white beaches (alternated to granite cliffs with the most varied shapes) and a turquoise sea.

But Sardinia and Gallura, as it is known, are not only sea and sun: in this territory in fact do not lack, the archaeological sites. In locality Lu Brandali you will find the homonym nuraghic village where are present the rests of numerous huts and also a giants tomb.

The massive Longonsardo tower (beginning of the XVI century) dominates to the promontory of Santa Teresa di Gallura. It is a circular building wanted by the Spanish to control the coast from a favorable position.

On 12th August is celebrated the foundation of Santa Teresa di Gallura, that goes back to 1808: it was king Vittorio Emanuele of Savoia to choose for this locality the name of his wife, Maria Teresa d'Austria. To the parade through the streets of the center take part hundreds of figurants in period costumes. On the second Sunday of September, instead, is celebrated Santa Reparata, the martyr murdered in the III century A.D. during the persecutions ordered by the Roman Emperor Decio. The recurrence is handed on from the foundation of the citizen, even if the church dedicated to the Saint was constructed in Capo Testa only in 1851.

In Santa Teresa di Gallura, at the end of August, from years takes place the “Musica sulle Bocche”, an important international show of jazz music that proposes events along the coast that looks onto the Bocche di Bonifacio. The exhibitions of the musicians are proposed also in unusual timetables, as for example at dawn on a beach.