An Italian natural monument, Cala Goloritzé is the symbol of Ogliastra: a crescent of white pebbles beneath the Aguglia, a 143-metre limestone spire loved by climbers worldwide.
Sardinians call it Ispuligidenie, "snow fleas": the white and pink pebbles that turn Cala Mariolu's water an unreal blue. Repeatedly voted among the world's most beautiful beaches.
An amphitheatre of golden sand closed by an oleander-filled canyon, with six natural caves opening directly onto the beach: Cala Luna is the most theatrical cove in the Gulf of Orosei.
Less famous than its sisters and special precisely for that: Cala Sisine is a kilometre of pale gravel where one of the Supramonte's grandest canyons meets the sea, between 500-metre walls.
Ogliastra's "easy" sea: eight kilometres of fine white sand, water shallow for dozens of metres and small pink-granite coves alternating with dunes. The beach of carefree afternoons.
Two red porphyry stacks rising from turquoise water: the image that made Cea famous. A wide pale-sand beach between Tortolì and Barisardo, beloved by local families.
Few seafronts have thousand-year-old natural umbrellas: the monumental wild olives of Santa Maria Navarrese reach almost to the shoreline, facing the red Isolotto d'Ogliastra on the horizon.
Separated from Mariolu by a single rock spur, Cala dei Gabbiani offers the same impossible water with half the people: the choice of those who know the Baunei coast.
Not a beach but a natural pool carved in limestone, where the sea turns so clear that boats seem to fly: the Piscine di Venere are the definitive snorkelling stop on the Baunei coast.
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