Santa Margherita di Pula
Santa Margherita di Pula is a seaside resort located on the southern coast of Sardinia, roughly 40 km from Cagliari and only 5 km from Chia, another extremely popular holiday location famous for its marvellous stretches of white fine sand and turquoise sea often used for filming commercials.
Santa Margherita is a very small town made up exclusively of villas situated next to the sea in a beautiful pine forest. The area is basically a holiday resort and in the summer it is frequented both by tourists and the locals who often have a holiday home here.
The area, no doubt quieter than the Costa Smeralda, is one of the most beautiful of the Island, here in fact is the renowned Forte Village, the most exclusive resort of Sardinia which takes up a large stretch of the beach with its 7 hotels, all characterized by impeccable and first rate food and facilities.In the immediate vicinities is Pula, a small town of seven thousand inhabitants which is very well kept with pretty and colourful houses, restaurants and pizzerias. In the summer, it’s the night-time hub for the young.
Pula hosts the evocative archeological site of Nora with remains dating back to the Punic times. Still in Nora is the church of S. Efisio, the Patron Saint of Cagliari who is celebrated on the 1st of May with an extraordinary procession where one can breathe true Sardinian folklore.
On the road leading to Domus de Maria one can spot the Nuraghe Santa Margherita, an extremely ancient ruin of the Nuragic period which dates back to the III millennium
