This hidden canyon in the Mediterranean teems with whales and dolphins. But it’s under threat

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.
Yahoo

Whoopi Goldberg says she thinks Sardinia is a 'Blue Zone' because people don't have 'a lot of BS' to deal with

Whoopi Goldberg, 68, has a vacation home in Sardinia, Italy, the first designated "Blue Zone." Goldberg compared living in Sardinia to the US, where people are often stressed. "Blue Zones" refer to ...
Forbes

Inside The $185 Million Costa Smeralda Compound That Just Became Italy’s Most Expensive Home Ever Sold

This waterfront compound, with 28 bedrooms, and 35 bathrooms, is located within Sardinia’s ultra-exclusive armored triangle—the billionaire enclave of Romazzino. Once the Camp David of Italy, it is ...
Business Insider

Officials fined more than 40 tourists up to $3,000 each for stealing sand from an Italian island's protected beaches

Italian police on Saturday seized 220 pounds of sand that tourists took from a protected beach. It's illegal to remove Sardinia's bright-white sand because it disrupts the ecosystem. Police issued ...
Salon

Death in Sardinia: Murder, an unpublished masterpiece and Italy’s misunderstood island

Excerpted from "In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy," published this month by Melville House. Used by permission. As Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean, readied for the ...
Time

ITALY: Hope in Sardinia

Sardinia, which is like nowhere. Sardinia, which has no history, no date, no race, no offering. They say neither Romans nor Phoenicians, Greeks nor Arabs ever subdued Sardinia. It lies outside; ...
The New York Times

House Hunting in Italy: Sitting Seaside on Sardinia for $760,000

The pandemic has driven up prices in the coastal areas of northern Sardinia, where home buyers are now competing with investors. 14 Photos View Slide Show › By Lisa Prevost This one-bedroom apartment ...
WRAL

Polish mayor falls to death from hotel balcony in Sardinia, Italy

A Polish mayor died after falling from a fourth-floor window of a hotel in Sardinia, Italy, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Tuesday. A Polish mayor died after falling from a fourth-floor ...
New York Sun

Italy’s Left, in Regional Election Today, Hopes for a ‘Sardinia Effect’ After a Loss There for Giorgia Meloni

Beware l’effetto Sardegna. Though it sounds like the title of an old Robert Ludlum paperback, the so-called “Sardinia effect” may be the harbinger of things to come — and a significant threat to the ...
The New York Times

Wildfires Ravage Sardinia in ‘a Disaster Without Precedent’

A 25-mile swath of vegetation, farms and villages is hit by one of the largest wildfires in decades, devastating the Italian tourist destination. By Gaia Pianigiani About 1,000 residents and tourists ...
CNN

Americans on private jet denied entry to Sardinia

Five Americans who flew by private jet to the Mediterranean island of Sardinia were refused entry to Italy on Wednesday due to new EU travel restrictions on countries with high coronavirus infection ...