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Day itinerary · 40.94° N · 8.23° E
A morning at La Pelosa with your reservation, seafood lunch at L'Ancora, the Tonnara Museum in the afternoon, the Capo Falcone tower at sunset and dinner on the promenade.
Part of Stintino and Asinara Island
The plan
Any part can be swapped for another without spoiling the day.
From Olbia or Cagliari to Stintino; estimated time, without stops
book at spiaggialapelosa.it, €3.50, under-12s need no booking · bring a mat · checks from 8:00 to 18:00
lunches from 12:30 to 15:00; ask for a table by the picture window
Viale La Pelosa, 12, 07040 Stintino · +39 079 527115
from June to September, Tuesday to Sunday from 17:30 to 20:30 · €5, free for under-15s
an hour's climb, free; closed shoes
wood-fired pizza or grilled tuna on the promenade; book in August
Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo, 113, 07040 Stintino · +39 079 520078
To Olbia or Cagliari; better to sleep in Stintino
Adds up the activities and meals in the plan at their published prices; travel and accommodation not included.
The route
La Pelosa is the beach people come to Stintino for, and in season you have to book it like a museum. This plan uses it as the backbone of the day: the morning in shallow turquoise water, seafood lunch facing the gulf, an hour at the Tonnara Museum to understand the town and the climb up to the Capo Falcone tower as the sun goes down. Pizza for dinner on the promenade and, if you can, stay the night: the drive back is long.
Fly to Olbia (OLB), with a direct flight from Barcelona, or to Cagliari (CAG), from Barcelona and Seville. Alghero airport is closer, about 50 km away, but has no direct flight from Spain. Hire a car: from Olbia it is about two hours and from Cagliari about three and a half hours, estimated times. From Cagliari it makes no sense to go and come back in a day: sleep in Stintino.
From 15 May to 15 October, La Pelosa admits only 1,500 people a day, with a €3.50 reservation per person on the official website. A thousand of those places open at 9:00 two days before. To go on Saturday, log on on Thursday at nine. Children under 12 do not need to book. Bring a mat: without one you cannot put your towel down.
9:30 · La Pelosa. Park beside the sand and show your QR code. Very shallow water, the 1578 tower on its islet and Piana island ahead. Go to La Pelosetta, next door, to see the tower up close.
13:00 · Lunch at L'Ancora. On the beach road, over the sand, with picture windows onto the gulf. Linguine alla falconiera or seafood fregola, about €24, and grilled gulf fish sold by weight. Lunches from 12:30 to 15:00.
15:00 · Siesta or a second swim. The afternoon is for resting or going back to the beach with the same reservation.
17:30 · Tonnara Museum. In the village. An hour to see how tuna was caught in the tonnara and how Stintino was born with the families expelled from Asinara. €5, free for under-15s.
19:00 · Capo Falcone. You go back towards La Pelosa and climb the tower, about 200 m above the sea. To the west, cliffs; to the east, the beach and Asinara. The sun sets over the open sea.
21:00 · Dinner at Il Portico. Wood-fired pizza, fried seafood or grilled red tuna on the promenade, facing the harbour.
Where to eat
Lunch is half the plan: book before you set off.
What to order: the linguine alla falconiera with clams, bottarga and tomato, or the fregola ai frutti di mare; for a main course, the grilled fish of the gulf, charged by weight
What to order: a wood-fired pizza or the grilled bluefin tuna; to share, the octopus with potatoes or the mussel zuppetta
What to order: the Sardinian dinner menu, with no choosing: house cured meats and pecorino, ricotta ravioli, oven-roasted suckling pig with myrtle and seadas
Map
With where to park at each one.
Getting there
When to go
From June to September, when the museum is open in the afternoon from Tuesday to Sunday and La Pelosa requires a reservation. Do not go on a Monday, when the museum is closed. La Pelosa places are released at 9:00 two days before.
Tips
That is when the thousand places for the day are released.
The museum is closed.
A four-hour round trip by car from Olbia is a lot for a single day.
Questions
Yes, but it is about two hours by car each way; better to sleep in Stintino.
€3.50 per person with a reservation, from 15 May to 15 October.
Go to Le Saline, south of the village: it has no quota.
No. The direct flights are to Olbia and Cagliari.
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Prices, opening hours and times are approximate: check them before you go. Each place has its own page on Geocalia.
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