Places to visit in Alghero

Alghero is located in the middle of the renowned Coral Riviera, that takes the name from the big red coral colonies into the marine Park. Among the many natural beauties, we point out the Nettuno cave, one of the most beautiful in Europe.

Not far from Fertilia (on the way to Porto Conte) the nuragic fortress of Palmavera is the most important nuragic site among those on the territory of Alghero. The fortress was discovered at the beginning of 1900, protected by a defence wall with a pentagonal plant and two towers, which ruins are still visible nowadays. It is surrounded by the remaining huts that used to constitute part of the village built around the end of the II millennium B.C. at the bottom of the fortress. At about fifteen kilometers from Alghero (next to the beach of Porto Ferro), the Baratz lake is the only true natural lake in Sardinia. It is a protected area, surrounded by a wide secular pine wood.

In the proximity of Anghelu Ruju necropolis (in the territory of Alghero, on the Due Mari road), the Nuraghe Lattara has kept for thousand years numerous objects, weapons, found by archaeologists during the diggings of the past century. Anghelu Ruju is the most famous necropolis of the zone. It was discovered in 1904, and conserve about forty burial caves of small dimensions, which are partly connected, dug into the rock between the VI and the III millennium B.C.: with numerous finding of objects and weapons inside it.

At twenty minutes by car from Alghero, you will found the ex mine of the Argentiera. The silver deposit that gave the name to the site, which seems to have attracted thousand of people from far away since antiquity. The mine of the Argentiera is in the territory of Sassari, and in 1838 it acquired an international fame thanks to the well known French novelist Honorè de Balzac, who was attracted by the possibility of conspicuous earnings from the mine exploitation: it would have been the occasion to improve its financial situation. Instead, at the end of a long and debilitating journey, the chemical laboratories of Cagliari assessed that the silver presence of slag extracted from the galleries, still working until that moment, was completely insignificant.