Badesi

Badesi sits on a hill above the Gulf of Asinara, with municipal territory running north to the dunes and reaching down to the Coghinas river, the natural boundary between Gallura and Anglona. The village formed in the eighteenth century, when shepherding families settled in a Spanish baron's fief and gathered around the Sacro Cuore church built in the early twentieth century. Badesi became an autonomous comune in 1969.

The vineyards on the surrounding hills sit inside the Vermentino di Gallura DOCG zone, the only DOCG in Sardinia, and the commune holds the Città del Vino designation. The beach at Li Junchi runs eight kilometers along the coast from the cliffs of Isola Rossa to the Coghinas mouth, granite-fed white sand backed by juniper-covered dunes. It carries the Bandiera Blu, awarded for water quality and beach management. The coastline behind the dunes is a protected EU site for migratory and marsh birds nesting along the river reeds.