Including a stand alone Popout Map!
With its 7000 mysterious Bronze Age stone towers, Neolithic ’Giants Tombs’ and hundreds of Spanish watchtowers, Sardinia is an outdoor museum where its tangled past meets its colourful present. The most isolated island in the Mediterranean, it basks in a seven-month summer and boasts jagged mountain ranges, beautiful flowering bougainvilleas, glitzy jet-set coastal resorts and 2000km of emerald coastline. Nowhere else in Italy will you find bands of nomadic shepherds, three-storey yachts, myrtle-scented liquors, pink flamingos, Wild West towns and otherworldy celebrations all within 30 minutes of one another. Striking beauty and rugged brawn all await, so pack your snorkel, lace your hiking boots and discover one of Italy’s last truly unspoilt corners. Covers Cagliari and the south, Oristano and the west, Nuoro and Ogliastra, Gallura and Sassari and the northwest.
Click here to flick through pages taken from the “Venice & Veneto” guide
Areas Covered:
 What the locals say: Suggestions from local people on where to go and what to do
A year in the region: Month-by-month guide to pros and cons of visiting at certain times of year
Great days out: A series of great driving routes and city walks
Favourite things: The author’s personal recommendations of a place or an activity
Pick of the picnic spots: Where to picnic and the best places to buy your goodies
What the Press says:
While most guidebook authors head to a destination for several months and pen some notes, writer Eliot Stein immersed himself in Sardinian culture by living there for nearly three years. His recently published guidebook to Sardinia is not only one of the most authoritative guides to the island, but it also promotes responsible travel from a true insiders’ perspective. The following are his recommendations of ways tourists can help preserve Sardinia’s unique culture.
National Geographic Traveller
Footprint’s Sardinia is a valuable guide for anyone planning on travelling to Sardinia... what I like most about this Guide is that it is written for travelers with grown-up tastes who not only want to tour Sardinia but learn about it’s history and culture as well. This Guide may not appeal to those who travel frenetically but would engage those with a keen interest in history and culture but who also want to sample la dolce vita.
Richard Marcis, Wine Words Wisdom
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