Entire day. Departure from the Hotel by bus towards Porto cervo, halt and visit in the centre. Sack lunch on the beach of Baia Sardinia. Panoramic tour of the Emerald Coast with brief halt to Coda Cavallo Cape – East Head.

BUE MARINO CAVES

Half day. Departure from the Hotel by bus towards Cala Gonone, continuing to the Bue Marino Caves by motorvessel.

BUE MARINO CAVES – CALA LUNA

Entire day. Departure from the Hotel by bus towards Cala Gonone. Moving to the Bue Marino caves by motorvessel. Continuing always by motorvessel towards Cala Luna . Sack lunch on the beach.

MADDALENA E CAPRERA

Entire day. Departure from the Hotel by bus towards Palau. Moving by ferry-boat to Maddalena and by bus till Caprera. Guided visit to the house of Garibaldi. Sack lunch in the pine-wood of Caprera. Panoramic tour by bus from Maddalena with brief halts in some belvedere.

Moving by ferry-boat to Palau and halt at the Sardinian craftmanship centre in Olbia.

OROSEI village 12 km from the Hotel.

Orosei is a seaside place situated on the central-oriental coast of Sardinia. It is a quiet village in the province of Nuoro linked to the main road trough two state roads that intersect it.

The variuos geological happenings have moulded this area, giving to it, in a very smal space, a nice alternation of landscapes thanks to the concomitant presence of the sea and the mountains, of the river and the ponds, of the alluvial plain and of the basaltic jar.

Thanks to its closeness to the sea, the village has a quite mild climate during the winter, while during the summer the almost hot temperature gets colder by the sea breeze.

Thanks to these favourable conditions, Orosei has become an appreciated touristic centre, provided of the main receptive structures.

TERRITORY

TUTTAVISTA MOUNTAIN

PONDS OF SA CURCURICA AND BIDERROSA ( NATURAL RESERVE )

DAMP AREAS

BEACHES

REEVES

Concerning the archeological sites there are :

The Domus de Jana of Conca Ruia.

The wide cave with the same name which opens itself on a sheer descending wall of the Tuttavista mountain. The cave, from whose tops, some stalactites hang, contains two Domus de Janas.

The Nuragic village of Sa Linnarta.

It is without doubts the most important nuragic village of the area, which was the main of a lot of villages placed near the sea and along the edges of the golleus.

HISTORICAL CENTRE AND RURAL CHURCHES.

Orosei is one of the villages of the province of Nuoro that shows less degradation of the historical centre. This area occupies at the moment about the one third of the whole village.

The church of Saint Maria of the sea, built by Pisan merchants in the XII century.

The church of Saint Lucia.

It is one of the rural churches most dear to the tradition of orosei people, who celebrate there the feast twice a year ( on 13^th december and on the first Sunday after Easter ).

Sanctuary of Saint Antonio Abate.

It is the architectonic building where mostly it is possible to breathe the sensation of Middle Age, either for the structures still preserved or for the glorious institution of a hospital linked at them.

Old castle-prison.

The church of Saint Gavino.

The church of Saint Sebastiano.

Sanctuary of the Rimedio.

It is one of the most typical country sanctuaries in Sardinia, with the church in the middle surrounded by a small unicellular houses called cumbessias that receive the faithful people during the prayers. Here there are at least one hundred little houses that delimit the wide yard

full of trees.

The oratory of the Confraternities.

In the village three confraternities work. They are called of the Saint Cross, of the Rosario and of the Souls. They are ancient associations of lays that, wearing a characteristic dress, dedicate themselves particularly to the practice of worship in their oratories properly built since their own institution.

Rural houses.

Numerous are the examples of rural architecture still completely preserved.

Exclusive bulidings.

Primacial of Saint Giacomo.

It is the most beautiful building in the village, from the architectural point of view.

MUSEUM OF SIR GIOVANNI GUISO

The " Museum of Guiso " is the first museum of the 2000 and it is placed in the historical centre of Orosei.

It is the first in Orosei and unique in the world for its background and subject. It is the gift of Giovanni Guiso to its native village, now owner of an artistic and cultural inheritance that includes:

A collection of little theatres from 1700 till today;

A collection of drawings of the Roma School (1930-1945 );

A collection of ancient a rare books about Sardinia;

A collection of " Sardinian Costumes " fromm 1880 till today;

Works of Siena art.

MOST CHARACTERISTIC FEASTS

On 16^th and 17^th January, the Feast of Saint Antonio Abate takes place, in the churchyard of the church that has the same name, with a big bonfire on the eve of the feast.

Rituals of the Holy Week: the most spectacular cerimonies happen in three processions: Sos Sepurcros, Su Brossolu and S’Incontru that take place on the Thursday, Friday and in the morning of Easter Day.

On 14^th April, it takes place the country feast of Saint Lucia.

Procession of Saint Isidoro: it is a procession that takes place on 15^th May ( or the following Sunday ) honouring Saint Isidoro the farmer, whose statue is in the Church of the Grazie. The procession takes place along the streets of the village with a parade of carts hauled by oxes attentively decorated by purpose.

The last Sunday of May takes place the Feast of Saint Maria of the sea with the suggestive procession of boats on the Cedrino river.

The festival of the Madonna del Rimedio : it is the longest lasting feast (18 days) in the frame of the famous sanctuary of Maria. Holy and profane match perfectly together. The day of the feast, in which the animation arrives at its climax, is on the second Sunday of September.

CITY OF NUORO : distance from the hotel : about 50 km.

It is possible to visit the house of Grazia Deledda ( Nobel Prize for Literature ), now restored and transformed in museum, with documents of her writing activity and tools of the domestic and agricultural-pastoral life at the time.

The museum of the daily life and of the popular traditions, where are contained the costumes and the objects of the traditional life in the sardinian inland villages: particularly important are the halls dedicated to the carnival masks of Barbagia.

Speleological-archeological museum with remains ant prooves of the variuos prehistorical epoches.

Half a day outing

VILLAGE OF OLIENA . Distance from the hotel : about 50 km.

A little far from the village there is the carsic spring of Su Gologone, in an extremely suggestive landscape, surrounded by a little wood of wild oleanders and dominated by the rustic church of Saint Maria.

Continuing, it is possible to reach the Lanaitto valley, placed in the middle of big calcareous ridges developed in a series of endless gorges, crevasses, neddles and frightening swallows.

In the gorges, there are the entrances to some suggestive caves with spectacular undergroung little lakes : among these " Sa Oche ", " Su Bentu " ( probably the longest in Italy ) and the cave of " Corbeddu ", that nowadays has a particular archeological and paleontological interest.

Next to the Lanaitto valley there is the Tiscali mountain ( to be visited with an experienced guide because of its difficulty to be reached ), that is a huge calcareous cliff. On its top, in a cave where the vault failed, was built a little and secret village in the nuragic epoch, of which a large number of ruins remain. It dominates the valley.

A daylong outing

Few kilometres from the village of Dorgali, it is possible to visit the nuragic village of " Serra Orrios ", formed by about 70 huts, some wells, a holy fence and two interesting and rare little temples made on a rectangular plane: maybe it is the village that is in the best conditions of preservation among the ones known.

Half a day outing

Along the S.S. 125 Orosei – Dorgali there is the " Ispinigoli " cave, a wonderful natural cavern already patronized in the nuragic and punic period, probably used as a holy place. It is said, it was used for the execution of human sacrifices; moreover it contains a stalagmite that is 38 metres high, the highest in Europe.

Half a day outing

The gorge of Gorropu is an impressive canyon characterized by perfectly vertical walls, more than 200 metres high, where endemisms and other rare botanic species grow.

A daylong outing