It is a pity that many site visitors to Sardinia give up discovering the inside of the island in favour of its coasts. Coastlines with blue-green water and gleaming sand have actually lengthy attracted visitors to this island, from the jet-set prestige of the Costa Smeralda to the less complex beauty of Alghero. However, as is usually the instance, the roadway much less taken a trip can be an even more fulfilling one. One factor to drag on your own a plain hour’s drive from these locations is the possibility to remain at the impressive L’Agnata di De André, which has to do with 10 mins by automobile from the attractive hill community of Tempio Pausania, in the north of the island.
Once the lodge of the Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André and his partner Dori Ghezzi, it was exchanged a resort by Dori and the family members after De André’s fatality in 1999. The bed and breakfast can be located at the end of a slim, winding roadway flanked by cork oak and yellow-blossomed, jasmine-scented Mount Etna mop. The container of this valley is lavish and eco-friendly– a lot more so than much of the sturdy granite-defined landscape of internal Sardinia.
As impressions go, it is tough to defeat L’Agnata di De André. You arise from a grapevine-canopied path to the magnificent view of a good-looking 19th-century farmhouse entirely covered in creeping plants; the fallen leaves tremble in the wind, making your home appearance wonderful and virtually to life. The eco-friendly of the outside mixes right into the grass and the bordering green forest. There are simply 2 areas in the farmhouse, with a more 8 in a more recent (additionally vine-clad) structure alongside the swimming pool.
Allow’s obtain some cautions off the beaten track. The resort will certainly not win any type of honors for interior design or innovative comforts: the string matter of the sheets may not birth examination and those that rank resorts on their opulent, nickable toiletries will certainly be dissatisfied. Instead, the areas fit and sensible, with good-looking brownish furnishings in which to decant your travel suitcase, dissimilar textiles and a hash of fleamarket– or mercatino delle pulci— art work on the wall surfaces.
Aperitivos are appreciated on the front grass and suppers– of passionate Sardinian price– are consumed by candlelight on the back grass, with De André’s folky, Dylan-esque songs playing behind-the-scenes. Anticipate a collection food selection without any lack of meat (the suckling pig is thaw in the mouth). My Italian companion, a vegan, thrilled in the exploration of a pasta he had actually not come across prior to: yummy Sardinian packed pockets called culurgiones
The most effective feature of this resort is its ambience, which owes no little financial obligation to the estate– huge sufficient for forest rambles and absolutely calm. Credit score needs to additionally be offered to basic supervisor Gianni Monteduro. I uncovered L’Agnata by coincidence in 2018 and it was the very first location my companion and I scheduled after the preliminary Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. A four-night break right here, with excursion to vineyards and historical sites, was the ideal means to reduce ourselves back right into global traveling.
Ways and Way
Spaces at L’Agnata di De André expense from concerning ₤ 180. Reserve right here.
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