Sardinia contains approximately 7,000 surviving nuraghi — truncated-cone towers of dry-stone construction, built between approximately 1800 and 700 BCE, distributed across the island at an average density of one per 3.5 square kilometres. The density is without parallel in the prehistoric Mediterranean: no other territory of equivalent size contains anything approaching this concentration of Bronze Age monumental architecture. What the nuraghi were for — their social functio

The Gulf of Orosei runs along Sardinia's eastern coast between Dorgali in the north and Baunei in the south — approximately 35 kilometres of coastline backed by the Supramonte limestone massif, which drops directly into the sea in vertical and near-vertical cliffs of up to 400 metres.

Sardinia before the season is a different proposition entirely, and April and May are the months that demonstrate what it is before the season turns it into something else.