The Mediterranean island of Sardinia

7 January 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Sardinia Montage © GaiusCrastinus

Sardinia Montage © GaiusCrastinus

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus). It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. To the west of Sardinia is the Balearic Sea, a unit of the Mediterranean Sea; to Sardinia’s east is the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is also an element of the Mediterranean Sea. The coasts of Sardinia (1,849 km long) are generally high and rocky, with long, relatively straight stretches of coastline, many outstanding headlands, a few wide, deep bays, rias, many inlets and with various smaller islands off the coast.   read more…

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