Discover Sardinia And The Costa Smeralda Beaches
A charming and contradictory environment, characterized by the wild and proud Mediterranean shrub-land (Macchia or Maquis), strange-shaped white granite rocks, beaches, coves and bays that your eyes have never seen yet.Costa Smeralda is surely the most renowned place in Sardinia not only for its constant society life, but also for its unforgettable beauty.
Sardinian Climate
Sardinia has a maritime Mediterranean climate, stronger along the coastal strip, due to its insularity and to the small distance from sea of every part of its territory. It is temperate during all the year.
It naturally shows the effects of its geographical position (in the centre of Mediterranean sea). In fact, the Island is situated in the trajectory of tropical air masses coming from the African coasts on one side, and air masses carried by Western winds originate from the Atlantic Ocean on the other side. It is sporadically crossed by cold currents of air coming from the Artic.
Normally the North is more rainy than the South. In winter, the temperature is normally around 10Ò° C in the coastal cities and a little bit lower in the inland area, while during the summer it can reach and exceed 30Ò° C.
The summer tends to be more or less long depending on the year, but it is usually possible to spend a nice day at the beach (bath included) from April to October.
Sardinian History: the Nuragic civilization
The Nuragic civilization developed between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (from 1800 to 500 B.C.). Almost 8000 nuraghes, about 400 tombs of Giants and no specified number of sacred wells are examples of the impressiveness of the nuragic civilization. The so-called bronzetti (representing little modern ships) and the archaeological finds (such as the representations of Shardana people in the Egyptian temple of Medinet Abu) demonstrate how the nuraghic people dominated the whole Mediterranean area. The theories of Sergio Frau, a journalist and writer of the book "Le Colonne dò€™Ercole, unò€™inchiesta" (The Pillars of Hercules. An investigation) state that Sardinia actually was the powerful Island of Atlantis. Eminent scholars and archaeologists of all over the world maintain these theories.