Su Nuraxi, the giants of Mont’e Prama and the Barbagia villages, on an island with a language of its own. Not just the coast: the interior, where shepherds, weavers and bread makers still work as they did, and where the archaeology predates the Roman empire by two millennia.
Arrival and transfer to the hotel. Afternoon walk through the Castello district, with the Pisan towers and the view over the lagoon. Welcome dinner with Cannonau and an introduction to an island that had a civilisation before Rome existed.
Morning at the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari for the bronzetti, then north to Barumini and Su Nuraxi, the UNESCO nuraghe complex, with an archaeologist explaining how a society with no writing built seven thousand of them. Lunch in the village.
Transfer to the west coast, with the morning at Tharros on its promontory and the afternoon at the Cabras museum, where the Mont’e Prama statues stand reassembled from thousands of fragments. Lunch with bottarga at the lagoon. Overnight on the coast.
Departure inland into the mountains, with roads driven in daylight and a stop at a nuraghe on the way. Arrival at the base in the Barbagia for three nights. Afternoon in Orgosolo, where the murals record a century of local politics.
Morning with a weaver and a bread maker in a mountain village, both working as they always have, with the Sardinian language spoken around the group. Lunch at the house. Afternoon free, or a short walk into the Supramonte.
Transfer east through the Gennargentu to the Ogliastra, with a long lunch at a shepherd family’s table, roast and cheese and the pastoral calendar explained by the people who follow it. Return in the late afternoon.
Morning at Nuoro, with the ethnographic museum and the house of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel for writing about these villages. Independent lunch. Afternoon free. Farewell dinner in the mountains.
Transfer to Olbia or Cagliari for onward flights, with the direct Olbia to New York route available from 2027 for groups routing that way.
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