La Maddalena and Tavolara, two parks in the middle of the turquoise

The protected marine area of Tavolara-Punta Coda Cavallo (instituted in 1997) and the Archipelago La Maddalena National Park (1991) are two natural paradises in the area of the Gallura. Both are protected by strict national rules, which entail thorough controls by the competent authorities, called to enforce regulations for swimmers and watercrafts.

The fabulous beauty of this large area of Sardinia has run the big risk of being ruined by the interests of property speculators from the whole world and by some insensitive tourists. Just to give an example many people have been copped by the coastguard, while they were carrying off the pink sand of the beach of Budelli, which nowadays has in fact lost part of its characteristic coral fragmentation.

Even if among many complaints, the restrictions imposed to the boats that move in the two protected areas, are preserving from pollution these two real earthly paradises.

The list of the sea resorts which are well-worth being admired is very long in this region: Porto Pollo and Baia di Liscia (near Palau), Capo Figari (Golfo Aranci: in the lighthouse built on the promontory, in 1928 the inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi inaugurated the radio link and the station of Cala Spada), Cala Moresca, Sant' Anna (Budoni), Punta Li Turchi (here started, during the Middle Age the barbarian invasions), Li Cupulatti, Brandinchi (Capo Coda Cavallo), Lu Impostu (San Teodoro), Porto Pozzo, Valle dell' Erica, La Marmorata, Rena Bianca (Santa Teresa di Gallura), Porto Cervo and the close Cala di Volpe, Razza di Giunco, Petra Ruja, Liscia Ruja, Capriccioli, Liscia di Vacca, Poltu Quatu, Baia Sardinia, Cannigione and Arzachena.

Many keys are visitable only from the sea, maybe by the boats of many service companies which you can find in the most important tourist ports of Gallura.