Cagliari, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Viewing Cágliari from the sea at the start of his Sardinian sojourn in 1921, D.H. Lawrence compared it to Jerusalem: "… strange and rather wonderful, not a bit like Italy". Today, still crowned by its historic nucleus squeezed within a protective ring of Pisan fortifications, CÁGLIARI is less frenetic than any town of equivalent size on the Italian mainland, most of its quarter-million population housed in mushrooming apartment blocks away from the centre. Its setting is enhanced by the calm lagoons ( stagni ) west of the city and along the airport road, the habitat for cranes, … more »