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Marina Piccola, Cagliari · Every day, 9:00 to 19:00

Cala Fighera from above: the sheer white cliff and boats on turquoise water

The itinerary

Where we go in the Gulf of Cagliari

Seven places you may already know from land, but which tell an entirely different story from the water. Here they are tour by tour, in the order you meet them.

Mornings only

Mari Pintau

9:00 - 13:00 · see the tour
The rocky coast of Is Mortorius with shallow, clear water over the seabed

Is Mortorius

Pale granite cliffs and a shallow seabed, the furthest point of the morning trip.

Three hundred metres of inlet between the rocks, golden sand mixed with pebbles, and water that turns green near the shore. Offshore lies the wreck of the Romagna, a cargo ship sunk during the war: that is what brings divers here.

Cala Regina bay with boats moored on turquoise water

Cala Regina

Pale pebbles and a Spanish tower on the headland, at Terra Mala, on the eastern side of the gulf.

A hundred and fifty metres of rounded shingle and half-submerged rocks, sheltered from the mistral, with water that runs from turquoise to emerald. Above the cove stands the seventeenth-century watchtower it is named after.

Mari Pintau bay seen from above, with boats at anchor on turquoise water

Mari Pintau

The best known of the eastern coves, beyond Capitana: pale pebbles and the water that gives it its name, «painted sea».

Past Poetto the coast changes character: the houses thin out, the rock comes back down to the water and the coves of the Villasimius road open one after another. Mari Pintau is the best known of them.

Pale pebbles instead of sand, a seabed that stays legible all the way down, and the blue-green that does its name justice. It is reached only on the morning trip, because there needs to be time to go and come back unhurried.

Afternoons

Sella del Diavolo

14:00 - 16:30 · see the tour
The limestone cliffs of the Sella del Diavolo dropping into turquoise water

Sella del Diavolo

The headland that closes the gulf, seen from below. Sheer cliffs, sea caves and a Spanish watchtower on top.

The Sella del Diavolo — the Devil's Saddle — is visible from all over Cagliari, but from the sea it is another thing entirely: the limestone walls fall straight into the water for dozens of metres, and where the caves open the colour shifts from turquoise to deep blue.

The name comes from a legend: the archangel Michael is said to have defeated the devil here, who in falling left the saddle of his horse pressed into the rock. The Spanish watchtower still stands at the summit.

Cala Fighera from above: the sheer white cliff and boats on turquoise water

Cala Fighera

The inlet under the white cliff, just past Calamosca. These days it is seen almost only from the sea.

A hundred metres of pebbles wedged between the rocks, sheltered from the wind, with the wall of the Sella del Diavolo dropping sheer above. The path down from Calamosca has been closed since 2017 because of rockfall risk: from a boat, you simply sail in.

Calamosca beach with the Spanish tower on the headland behind

Calamosca

A sheltered bay between the cliffs, with shallow, clear water. The first stop, the one where it sinks in where you have ended up.

Calamosca opens between pale cliffs just past the harbour, hidden just enough to stay quiet even at the height of summer. The water is shallow and so clear you can see the bottom from the boat.

It is the right place for the first swim: gentle depths, no current, and the century-old lighthouse watching the bay from the top of the cliff. Bring a mask and you will find fish and posidonia meadows a few metres below the surface.

The shallow turquoise water of Poetto, with the Sella del Diavolo and Marina Piccola behind

Poetto beach

Five miles of pale sand and shallow water. From the sea you take it in all at once, as from nowhere else.

Poetto is Cagliari's own beach: five miles running from the Sella del Diavolo to Quartu, with water that stays shallow for tens of metres and shifts from green to turquoise.

Seen from the water it changes completely: you take in its whole length in one go, with the Molentargius wetland behind it and flamingos that sometimes cross it in flight.

From 18:00

Sunset aperitivo

Dalle 18:00 in poi · see the tour
Sunset over Poetto, with the tower and palm trees backlit

Poetto beach

Five miles of pale sand and shallow water. From the sea you take it in all at once, as from nowhere else.

Poetto is Cagliari's own beach: five miles running from the Sella del Diavolo to Quartu, with water that stays shallow for tens of metres and shifts from green to turquoise.

Seen from the water it changes completely: you take in its whole length in one go, with the Molentargius wetland behind it and flamingos that sometimes cross it in flight.

The sun dropping into the sea off Poetto, with the Sella del Diavolo backlit

Sella del Diavolo

The headland that closes the gulf, seen from below. Sheer cliffs, sea caves and a Spanish watchtower on top.

The Sella del Diavolo — the Devil's Saddle — is visible from all over Cagliari, but from the sea it is another thing entirely: the limestone walls fall straight into the water for dozens of metres, and where the caves open the colour shifts from turquoise to deep blue.

The name comes from a legend: the archangel Michael is said to have defeated the devil here, who in falling left the saddle of his horse pressed into the rock. The Spanish watchtower still stands at the summit.

Three tours, one gulf

The morning pushes east as far as Is Mortorius; the afternoon stays under the Sella del Diavolo; the evening returns off Poetto for the sunset.

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