Città del Vino
Città del Vino in Sardinia
11 towns
Sardinia has 11 Città del Vino communes in our index. They cluster in the Nuoro, Sassari, and Oristano provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Oliena, Atzara, and Bosa. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Oliena
Province: Nuoro · 380 m
A Supramonte village at the foot of Monte Corrasi, source of Cannonau Nepente, base camp for Tiscali and the Lanaitto valley.
Atzara
Province: Nuoro · 553 m
A Mandrolisai wine village on the western Gennargentu, painted in the early twentieth century by Spanish costumbristas and the Sardinian Scuola di Atzara.
Bosa
Province: Oristano · 10 m
A colour-washed riverside town on Sardinia's only navigable river, with a Malaspina castle on the hill and the tanneries of Sas Conzas along the Temo.
Galtellì
Province: Nuoro · 49 m
Grazia Deledda's 'Canne al vento' set — a 2,354-resident Baronia borgo under the Monte Tuttavista in Sardinia's northeast, with the triple Borghi Autentici + Bandiera Arancione + Città del Vino signal, the 11th-c Cattedrale di San Pietro (Sardinia's first), and the entire centro recognised as the Parco Letterario Grazia Deledda for being the literal setting of her 1913 Nobel-trajectory novel.
Tempio Pausania
Province: Sassari · 566 m
The granite capital of Gallura at the foot of Monte Limbara, known for cork, Vermentino DOCG and the largest Carnival in northern Sardinia.
Alghero
Province: Sassari · 7 m
The Catalan city of northwest Sardinia, repopulated by Peter IV of Aragon in 1354 and still speaking Algherese Catalan today.
Badesi
Province: Sassari · 102 m
A Gallura commune founded by shepherding families in the 1700s, with eight kilometers of dunes between Isola Rossa and the Coghinas river.
Dorgali
Province: Nuoro · 387 m
A Supramonte town at 387 meters with the coastal frazione Cala Gonone, the Tiscali Nuragic village, and the 400-meter walls of Su Gorropu.
Samugheo
Province: Oristano · 380 m
Sardinia's textile-weaving capital — a 2,757-resident Mandrolisai borgo with the MURATS regional textile museum, the annual Tessingiu woven-art biennale, an active community of weavers still on traditional looms, and the Mandrolisai DOC red from the granite-soil vineyards around it.
Jerzu
Province: Nuoro · 450 m
The Cannonau capital of Ogliastra, perched at 450 meters under Monte Corongiu, where vineyards have been documented since 1130.
Mamoiada
Province: Nuoro · 644 m
The Barbagia village where the Mamuthones come out on January 17, twelve men in black sheepskins carrying thirty kilos of cowbells.
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