Must-see attractions in Western Sardinia

  • Piazza Maria Ausiliatrice

    Western Sardinia

    Arborea's showcase square, Piazza Maria Ausiliatrice is a beautifully tended space that wouldn’t look out of place in a Swiss alpine village. Overlooking…

  • Cattedrale dell’Immacolata

    Bosa

    Bosa's cathedral dates to the early 19th century when it was built over an earlier Romanesque church. A rare, if not overly riveting, example of rococo …

  • Torre dell’Isola Rossa

    Bosa

    This tower overlooking the beach at Bosa Marina is one of the largest in a series of defensive towers built by the island's Aragonese rulers in the 16th…

  • Torre di Portixedda

    Oristano

    This tower, just off Via Giuseppe Mazzini, was part of the city's medieval walls, most of which were pulled down in the 19th century. It's now used to…

  • Municipio

    Oristano

    Oristano's town hall overlooks the elegant focal square, Piazza Eleonora d'Arborea.

  • Casa Museo di Antonio Gramsci

    Western Sardinia

    In Ghilarza is the house where the famous early 20th-century political thinker Antonio Gramsci lived between 1898 and 1911. The small collection of photos…

  • Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate

    Bosa

    A short walk from Ponte Vecchio on the southern side of the river is the little Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate. Featuring a 16th-century Gothic facade in…