Located on the South of Sardinia, Cagliari is the Capital city of Sardinia. With almost 150,000 residents, Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy, and is the largest city in Sardinia.
The city is a seamless blend of natural beauty and ancient history of art and culture, architecture and design, making it one of the most attractive tourist spots in entire Europe. It, in fact, offers a perfect jumble of recreation, exploration and entertainment options. The Poetto Beach, which stretches for 5 miles, is considered to be one of the best and the most swimmers-friendly sea shores on the Mediterranean. This beach, when combines with the adjoining Marina Piccola beach, forms what can be the most ideal strip that satisfies all types of sun and sea based pursuits.
The city of Cagliari is considered one of the most astonishing in Italy. The city comes up with not only historical sites, but a string of parks, for which the city can also be termed as the ‘City of Parks” .
The most notable parks of Cagliari include Monte Urpinu Park, which is the densest of all the parks, and is located atop a hillock that is full of pine and oak trees, San Michele Hill Park with a medieval castle at its pinnacle, Terramaini Park that houses a little pond, which is thronged by various migratory birds, including flamingos, the Provincial Park of Monte Carlo that has a provincial library in an ancient mansion located on the hill top, the Pirri Park, and the Saline Regional Park at the outskirts of the city that is famous for a large forest and a wide variety of wildlife that includes wild boars, Sardinian bears and the likes.
The city also houses a number of public gardens, and a number of recreation centers.
The principal tourist attractions of the city include the old Roman Amphitheatre, Palaeo-Christian Basilica of San Saturnino, the old medieval half of the town with its two limestone towers - Torre dell'Elefante and the Torre di San Pancrazio, the main cathedral, Lady of Bonaria Sanctuary, the Catalan Gothic church, Torre dello Sperone, another 13th Century tower, and so on.
The city is also a very important center of art and culture of centuries of heritage and history under its belt. There a number of libraries in the city, each of which preserves impeccably thousands of handwritten manuscripts and documents, with evidence of centuries of historical events, the city has been a witness of. The city is also home to a number of galleries and museums, each preserving concrete proof of the age of traditional and history of the city and the rest of the country.
The city also hosts a string of events and festivals. The most important of them is the Feast of St. Ephysius – a carnival, Easter and Holy Week celebrations, the annual Cagliari Fair, and the likes.
The city can be reached by air, land and sea. While the Elmas Airport of Cagliari is served by all the major airlines of the world, there is also the option getting to the city by boat, though there are taxi services both within as well as in the outskirts of the city.
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