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Porto Columbu
Le Palme bed & breakfast is located in Porto Columbu near Pula, in Cagliari province.
Porto Columbu is a residential resort that faces the beaches of the western coast of Cagliari's Gulf.
Pula and Nora
Pula (2 km from Porto Columbu) is a village known for tourism and farming. Among this area's more interesting attractions is the Phoenician city of Nora, probably the oldest built in Sardinia.
The ruins of the ancient city of Nora are located on the Capo di Pula promontory overawed by the Tower of Coltellazzo, build by the Spaniards in 1500.
The first settlement was founded by the Phoenicians in the VIII century b.C. The city flourished for about 1500 years: after the Phoenician came the Carhtaginians and then the Romans.
Phoenician ruins includes houses and shrines, as the temple dedicated to the goddess Tanit, and also a necropolis partially preserved.
Roman area includes a thermal complexes with mosaics, the forum, a splendid theater, a market, temples and homes, among which stands out for its beautiful polychrome mosaics, "the house dell'atrio tetrastilo."
The beaches on the Costiera Sulcitana
Few kilometers west...
Santa Margherita di Pula: long beaches of white sand with maquis.
Torre Chia: sandy/rocky beaches with the presence of rocks.
Chia: From the promontory of Tower of Chia, through ponds and the ruins of Bithia, towards the cliff of Cape Spartivento and the port of Teulada, are beautiful clear sandy beaches, crystal clear sea, dunes, bays, islands and bays.
Teulada: bays and sand dunes cords alternate with a jagged and rocky coast.
Immediately after the granite promontory of Cape Spartivento, there are three beautiful bays: the rocky Perda Longa, sandy Tuerredda, and Porto Malfatano.
After a few kilometers you arrive in Cape Piscinnì, where a tower of the seventeenth century overlooks the coast.