Rugged beauty, robust yet luxurious plantlife that exhales perfumes every month of the year, long beaches of pastel coloured granite sand which hide only greater treasures beneath the waterline, its maritime winds that crystalize the air and enhance the colours of the land, sun, sky and sea... Enough to be distracted from the singular history and culture of the island.

Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Byzantines, Genoans and Spaniards all came to conquer the island at some point in history. The locals adapted by being mountain folks, rather than sailors, for the enemy came from the sea. Many monuments are testimony to these different civilisations who were integrated to greater or lesser degrees (for example, the dialect of Alghero is tainted of Catalan).

From sanctuaries dating back to the Bronze Age to XVth century fortifications, history gets its benchmarks, and on occasion in peculiar manner: when monuments built milleniums apart stand side-by-side in an open plain...

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