A beach in south-east Sardinia this week banned most visitors from putting up a sun umbrella or tent, in the most striking example yet of a growing system of paid and rule-heavy access across the island.
A Brazilian social media influencer was fined €1,800 on Thursday after posting a video of her visit to a protected pink sand beach on an uninhabited island off Sardinia.
Archaeologists in Sardinia have unearthed the torsos of two more limestone statues of boxers within the Iron Age necropolis of Mont'e Prama, Italy's culture ministry said Saturday.
Visiting spectacular Sardinia sometime soon? Impress the islanders by trying out some of their local languages. One of The Local's Sardinian readers explains the basics.
The island regions of Sardinia and Sicily were expected to be placed under ‘yellow’ zone restrictions from Monday after new infections soared and they met the threshold for hospitalised Covid patients.
With the return of mass tourism this summer came a new increase in the theft of sand, pebbles and shells from Sardinia’s protected beaches, environmental campaigners say.
Scientists in Sardinia are hoping a thousand-year-old olive tree nearly destroyed by recent fires can be saved, mobilising volunteers to stand guard around the remains of the ancient tree.
More than 1,000 people were forced to flee and some 20,000 hectares destroyed as wildfires swept the Italian island of Sardinia for three days straight.
With new coronavirus outbreaks pushing Sardinia to reimpose local restrictions, health experts have urged the Italian island to resume testing inbound travellers during the peak holiday season.
With most of Italy in lockdown, local authorities are resorting to tourist bans, testing requirements and quarantine to discourage second-home owners from visiting.
Border police in Sardinia denied entry to five US citizens who attempted to enter the island aboard a private jet, in line with Italy's ban on almost all tourism from outside Europe.
Anyone hoping to visit Sardinia, Sicily Puglia or Calabria this summer must remember to fill out a form stating where they'll stay and when they'll leave as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
Police in Sardinia are investigating two men who staged a traffic accident by claiming their vehicle had collided with a wild boar - which in fact turned out to be frozen.
A French couple are facing up to six years in prison after being caught leaving the island with 40kg of sand from Sardinia's beaches stashed in their car.
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Millions of locusts have devastated at least 2,000 hectares of crops in Sardinia, Italian farmers union Coldiretti said on Monday, with experts calling the invasion the worst in six decades.
