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Porto Cervo Travel Guide

 
 
 
 
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    Porto Cervo the most important and famous village in Costa Smeralda is a modern purpose-built resort which started in 1962, the village is a contrived but nonetheless stylish collection of traditional-style Mediterranean low-rise buildings in peach, cream and white stucco with terracotta-tiled roofs.

    The village comprises an attractive pedestrianised centre known as the Piazzetta, along with a web of narrow hilly roads behind a sizeable harbour. The marina, which accommodates up to 650 mainly fast and flashy craft boasts a huge yacht club and mall as well as its own shipyard. The developments surrounding the village itself are purpose-built extensions which have grown up around a handful of self-contained hotels and private villas. One or two of the former are too remote to be genuinely considered part of the resort.

    Locality:

    Porto Cervo is located on NE coast, in the Costa Smeralda area (20 mls N of Olbia airport, 85 mls E of Alghero). It is positioned on a deeply incised inlet with village occupying S slopes and marina on N side. Porto Cervo lies at heart of 7,500-acre Costa Smeralda resort area which includes numerous neighbouring hotel and residential developments like Pevero, Romazzino and Cala di Volpe.
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    Alghero, ITALY

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