The Costa Smeralda journal

Area guides, verified addresses and the seasons: reading before choosing a home.

Porto Cervo, the village that created the Costa Smeralda

Marina di Porto Cervo, marinadiportocervo.com

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Porto Cervo, the village that created the Costa Smeralda

Some places are born, and some places are imagined. Porto Cervo belongs to the second kind, with a few hundred residents in the municipality of Arzachena, a village designed from 1962 around a natural inlet and set slightly above the harbour.

11 August 20267 minute read

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Cala di Volpe

Cala di Volpe, the bay and Golfo Pevero

Cala di Volpe is a bay in the Arzachena area, framed by myrtle and junipers shaped by the mistral. It holds four beaches and a village looking out over the marina for superyachts, while behind it rise the fairways of Pevero Golf Club, designed in 1972.

6 August 20267 minute read

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Porto Rotondo

Porto Rotondo, the village that lives around its harbour

Porto Rotondo reveals itself from its quays. Part of the municipality of Olbia, it overlooks the gulf that shares its name and centres upon a harbour with over 650 berths, twenty-four kilometres from Porto Cervo.

31 July 20267 minute read

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Beach club

Costa Smeralda beach clubs and the nights that follow

On the Costa Smeralda, day and night are the same programme under two different lights. Everything begins on a granite terrace or a jetty reached only by sea, and finishes on a dance floor hewn into the rock or at a club opening its doors at 00:30.

24 July 20267 minute read

Michelin-starred dining on the Costa Smeralda

This Is Porto Cervo, thisisportocervo.com

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Michelin-starred dining on the Costa Smeralda

Three Michelin stars across a few kilometres of coastline, Japanese cuisine inside the hotel that invented Costa Smeralda, and a terrace overlooking the gulf where the evening begins with sparkling wine.

18 July 20267 minute read

Pevero Golf Club, peverogolfclub.com

Golf

Golf in Costa Smeralda, from Pevero to coastal courses

Eighteen holes designed by Robert Trent Jones set between two bays, nine holes descending steeply towards the sea, a layout shaped within a botanical garden and a pitch and putt nestled in Mediterranean scrub.

11 July 20267 minute read

Aquadream, aquadream.it

Excursions

Costa Smeralda with children

Children read this coastline in their own way. Where we see granite and junipers, they look for shallow water that lasts for twenty paces and a boat returning before dinner. Here is our take: beaches, opening times, minimum ages, and homes built for groups.

5 July 20267 minute read

SardegnaTurismo, sardegnaturismo.it

Costa Smeralda

When to visit the Costa Smeralda, month by month

The season here does not begin with the heat: it begins with a calendar. The regattas, the beach club openings, the bus starting in mid June, the golf tee times. Choosing the month shapes your stay just as much as choosing the home, and the 2026 season figures already tell you a great deal.

28 June 20266 minute read

How to reach the Costa Smeralda, by plane, helicopter and sea

Eccelsa Aviation, eccelsa.com

Helicopters

How to reach the Costa Smeralda, by plane, helicopter and sea

There are three ways to reach the Costa Smeralda, and each leaves a different first impression: the warm breeze across the tarmac at Olbia, the sound of rotor blades over pink granite, or the wake of a ferry gliding into the gulf at first light.

21 June 20267 minute read

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Costa Smeralda

How to choose the right villa on the Costa Smeralda

You do not choose a home on the Costa Smeralda from a specification sheet. You choose it by where you wake up, by how many minutes stand between you and the sand, by the voices you hear in the kitchen each morning.

13 June 20267 minute read

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