Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia enchants with its natural contrasts, the lights and colors of a region that boasts old traditions and a wild and pure nature. Sardinia is a mainly mountainous region where the presence of men does not seem to affect the territory: there are still luxuriant woods with millenary trees and desert areas where deer, wild horses and rare birds live undisturbed. Sardinia is famous for its white sand beaches, like in Costa Smeralda, with Porto Cervoset as its gemstone and uniting the history and culture of ancient traditions with a joyful and colourful nightlife. Porto Cervo was named after its enchanting cove that resembles the antlers of a deer; the Old Port is considered the best-equipped touristic port in the Mediterranean Sea. Porto Rotondo is also a famous location; it overlooks the wide Gulf of Cugnanaand is full of villas and piazzas swathed by such a splendid natural environment as this. Among its wonders, Sardinia offers the visitor the Nuragic complexes scattered all over the territory. These monuments are unique to the world, testifying to an ancient culture that – though it endured from the 16th to 15th Centuries B.C. still rains rather mysterious. The Nuragic constructions were built using great blocks of stone and developed around a central cone-shaped tower that communicates strength and power. Of these many constructions, theBarumini complex, in the Province of Cagliari, is among the sites in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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