Cagliari Province

Festa di Sant’Efisio in Cagliari, Sardinia

The first of May is La Festa dei Lavoratori (Labor Day) throughout Italy, but in Cagliari, the day marks the beginning of the Festa di Sant’Efisio to honour the martyred saint who saved the city from the Plague in the 17th century.

Italy sees loft boom

The market for urban lofts bucks the property slump while average housing prices start to decline.

Woman hands 160,000-euro find to police

A supermarket worker in the Sardinian town of Cagliari was being feted for her honesty on Tuesday after she found a package containing 160,000 euros in cash and cheques and handed it over to police.

Is Cannoneris forest, Sardinia

The road twists and turns up a steep hillside behind the tiny village of Domus de Maria. At every bend, a glimmering sea, wrapped in the soft pink haze of distance, plays a game of hide and seek with the peaks, while the waterside scrubland rarefies, replaced by the round, robust solidity of chestnut trees and holm oaks.