#Nuoro
Its beach, its small port, its numerous hotels and restaurants, its craft shops, the scenic beauty, its climate and the numerous leisure and cultural events, even of an international level, which take place there, make it popular all over the world. the year. The spectacular natural setting of Calagonone is best appreciated arriving from Dorgali: upon exiting a tunnel that pierces the bastion of the Bardia and Tului Mountains, you pass from a mountain landscape strongly marked by asperities, pinnacles, jagged ridges, to a grandiose marine landscape with infinite horizons towards the blue waters and bordered towards the land by a fantastic backdrop of mountains, holm oak woods, valleys.
By boat it is possible to reach the famous Cala Luna beach, a jewel so precious as to require adequate protection, and the Bue Marino cave: the cave, which is part of the karst system of the Supramonte massif, opens a small entrance towards the sea and it hides in its kilometre-long bowels astonishing natural treasures, as well as some families of monk seals, the last specimens of distant glacial eras in the Mediterranean.
Main distances: Orosei, 20 km; Tortolì / Arbatax, 65km; Olbia, 110km.
How to get there: by sea, to Olbia (90 km away), connected with Genoa, Livorno, Piombino, Civitavecchia (shipping companies: Tirrenia, Moby Lines, Sardinia Ferries, Snav, Grandi Navi Veloci Grimaldi, Saremar); by plane, the Olbia - Costa Smeralda airport (90 km away) is the stopover for the main national and international airlines. Charter flights land at the small airport of Tortolì-Arbatax (65 km away); Tirrenia ferries arrive in Arbatax from Genoa.
The beaches: the beaches of Calagonone, to the north, are Palmasera-S'abba Meica and Cala Cartoe; a little further north the beaches of the Orosei area (the beaches of Marina di Orosei - Ostalla stretch for over 4 km, mostly solitary even in mid-August, with the system of Cedrino ponds behind them, very important from a naturalistic point of view birdlife that frequents them; Cala Liberotto-Cala Ginepro, with its green pine forests right up to the white beach, up to the beautiful beaches of Sa Curcurica and Bidderosa, which are part of an area protected by the State Forestry Company). To the south, Ziu Martine, Fuili and Zio Santoru. Cala Luna is perhaps the most beautiful beach in the Mediterranean, due to the presence of 6 huge caves and the oleander forest located near the pond. Beyond Cala Luna, the coast of the Gulf of Orosei is easily accessible from Cala Gonne: Cala Sisine, Cala Biriola, Cala Mariolu, Cala Goloritzè, dominated by the unmistakable profile of the wild coast of Capo di Monte Santo.
