05/06/2026
Ogliastra – the wildest and least-known part of the island
Most visitors to Sardinia see the Costa Smeralda in the north, the beaches around Cagliari in the south, and the road between them. Ogliastra – the landlocked province on the central east coast – receives a fraction of those visitors. This is not because it is inferior. It is because it is harder to get to. And the people who do get there tend to come back.
Ogliastra is the landscape that Sardinia kept for itself. The mountains of the Gennargentu come down to the coast with an abruptness that leaves almost no room for the flat coastal developments that have occupied other stretches of the island. The cliffs are limestone and porphyry. The sea is the deep, clear blue of deep water close to shore. The villages – Baunei, Urzulei, Talana, Villagrande – have been inhabited continuously since the Bronze Age and still carry the weight of that continuity in their architecture, their food and their silence.
This is also, by the reckoning of population scientists, one of the five places on earth where people live longest. The Blue Zone of Ogliastra – a designation that emerged from research into exceptional human longevity – has produced the highest concentration of male centenarians ever recorded. The reasons are debated. The diet, the movement, the social cohesion, the clean air and the clean water all play a role. What is certain is that arriving in Ogliastra, you feel the difference before you can explain it.
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