White sand beaches, luxury yachts, impeccable golf clubs, prime spas, private jet landing strips, and helicopter rentals. Emerald Coast is the leading Italian spot for a top summer holidays. Every year, the super chic resort calls models, businessman, celebrities and high class tourist to this exclusive corner of North-Eastern Sardinia.
Porto Cervo is the most visited locality in the spectacular 55 km long coast. Its ultra modern port is fully-equipped with the latest infrastructures for an excellent management of the international marine traffic, while the ancient Porto Vecchio dating back from the '60 remains a picturesque hub in the prestigious tourist area framed by green hills. Costa Smeralda Yacht Club is the place to get in contact with other distinguish sailors and La Piazzetta is the night meeting point.
With more than 40,000 inhabitants and an international airport, Olvia is the central city of the Emerald Coast and the main entrance door to the Italian island. Despite the incredible tourist boom of the zone that brought up numerous luxury complex such as the modern Doubletree Hotel Sardinia, Olvia is a brave example of sustainable development with respect to the environment. That's how at the same time you find a wild landscape of granite mountains and isolated tiny beaches within a raw of luxury resorts. Under the water there are much more natural treasures for a great diving across caves and submarine canyons. Local species are protected at the Marine Reserves of Tavolara Island and the National Park of dell'Arcipelago de La Maddalena.
Travelling along the northern coast you will reach Costa Tinnari, Costa Paradiso, Portobello and the small gulf of Vignola. Isola Rossa displays and incredible beauty of red granite rocks contrasting with crystalline waters and smooth sand at Longa and Marinedda beaches. The idyllic setting was perfect to build up the paradise on Earth, and that is what Prince Karim Aga Khan did. In 1961 he started financing the tourist development of the area inaugurating a waterfall of successful architecture projects leaded by big names as Busiri-Vici,Jacques Couëlle, and Savin Couëlle. Nowadays, with a selective club of five star hotels as Hilton Sardinia, the Italian lure coast is a five star island floating in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
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