Take the show-off test and find out how many you know. It's easy! Always ask yourself: are they/am I a show-off? It has become a tidal wave situation: go through the various categories that the people around you fall into, whether they are drivers, publishers, communications experts, suitors, carpenters, pilots, athletes, husbands, classmates, etc... each has a tragically high percentage of blowhards. 

An abyss seems to separate the Costa Smeralda from the inland area behind it, the Gallura. This is the land of the “stazzi”, the traditional local farms, a paradise unto itself. Protected by spectacular rocky outcrops, bathed in sunlight, even the air up there feels alive. Each one of those little farmhouses is surrounded by lush green crops thanks to the heavy rains this year...

Seen from above, Puntaldia looks like a spiral sea shell resting on a spiral sea bed. It exudes the tranquillity of a very special seaside village and ranks as one of the island’s most prestigious residential complexes...

C’è chi lo fugge e chi non può. Ma in Costa Smeralda è un momento da non perdere. Ecco alcuni punti da unire, in qualsiasi direzione si voglia, per mantenersi in viaggio ma essere al contempo sempre nel posto giusto. Tanto la notte è ancora giovane, e se non basta ci attaccheremo quella successiva senza fermarci ancora. Sul presto, chi ha prenotato, può andare vestito da Grande Gatsby alla festa di Giagoni in Piazza di San Pantaleo, una cena e musica e festa fino a così tardi che chi non avesse trovato posto può ancora tornarci nelle ore piccole a bere e ballare in piazzetta, come 

Aqaba is opening up to international tourism and is doing so with a determination, proportionally speaking, worthy of the Costa Smeralda at its origins. Luxury hotel chains compete for the best locations, marinas and residential complexes intended to accommodate year-round tourism are springing up: the climate here is mild, and the heat of the two-month summer is dry and salubrious. All around are building sites and great works that are changing the face of the city. 

Barely visible from the sea, the small carefully camouflaged fortifications on the La Maddalena Archipelago seem to melt into the surrounding granite, the self-same rock used to build them between 1800 and the early 1900s. Many are authentic architectural masterpieces, hewn to sculptural effect from the rock and perfectly at one with the tortured landscape of the islands...

We'd like to point out how exciting, science-fiction-like and extraordinarily futuristic it is to approach the islands of the archipelago in our spaceships like ancient stellar migrants. Below us lies the sea of hydrogen and oxygen, loaded with sparkling solar power, and all around hundreds and hundreds of ships drawn here from the vast blue space to recharge their batteries...

There will be more and more flying objects filling our skies in the future and that’s giving some credence to the idea that buildings, gardens and courtyards should perhaps be designed with the view from on high in mind ...

Before photography became the medium of choice for advertisers, illustrators had the job of bringing alive the wonders of the world, the seductive adventure of travel, the glamour of holiday destinations. Posters and advertisements that began life with no real artistic ambition, do, however, when seen through modern eyes, have a stylistic and cultural value that elevates them to that level. ELYTSEFIL

The Church of San Lorenzo in Portorotondo is one of the most memorable examples of modern religious architecture. This tiny gem is the work of three great artists: Andrea Cascella, Mario Ceroli and Gianfranco Fini. The magnificent cross outside the church is made of two granite slabs intersecting on a circular base, sculpted by the ever skilful local masons. The interior welcomes believers and non-believers alike...

Stunning vistas, plateaus, gorges, forests, caves, waterfalls, emerald seas, hiking, adventure, tradition, hand-weaving, thousand-year-old trees, sweet treats, ricotta, còrdula, prosciutto, hospitality, authenticity, herbal medicines, dragonflies, mouflons, trout, eagles, horse-riding, motor-biking, climbing: Ogliastra offers all this and much more.

For thousands of years the lost continent of Atlantis has fascinated philosophers and mystics, and for centuries archaeologists, historians and scientists have debated the subject of the wondrous island swallowed whole by the sea in one almighty natural disaster...

The easy-going attitude with which a true Portorotundite faces life, it’s pleasures and adversities, even those adversities that are more or less obviously inherent in every pleasure (don’t you agree?) are handled with a healthy but considered dose of lightheartedness. Considered, but carefree. 

Up to 80% of marine refuse is plastic and more than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into the sea each year. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the hardest hit due to human pressure and its densely populated coasts. This planetary emergency affects us first hand...

Those infused with a desire to enjoy a Sardinia that is both beautiful and tastes great can follow this five-step plan, all based on our highly enjoyable - and repeated - direct experience. Starting from our base in San Pantaleo, a stone's throw from the Costa Smeralda, we will bring you right into the heart of the island, before returning through the mountains of northern Gallura...

We are striving to become good digital editors, to paint our two muses – holidays and Sardinia, as well as the unforgettable opportunities they offer together – in the right way for each platform that you find them on.

"I need to know the history of any food. I need to know where it comes from. I have to be able to imagine the hands that cultivated, worked and cooked what I eat." Holidays in Sardinia are not just about loungers and sun creams, there is an excellent opportunity to be seized: 

Luogosanto is just a 25 minutes drive away from the coast. It derives its name, meaning "holy place", from a proto-Christian hermitage, a Marian shrine, a Franciscan convent and dozens of rural churches. Its origins, however, are even more ancient, as evidenced by the nuragic structures that you can admire on the granite mountain that shelters its houses from the mistral wind...

It is not a legend but a true story. In 1836 Prince Carlo Alberto of Savoy met with Giuseppe Bertoleoni, an ex smuggler: shepherd, sailor and a man full of charisma, Giuseppe had awarded himself the title of King.

If you like Sardinian knives, well then choose one by Massimo's Manca, is what they say. So finding yourself in Pattada, a village in the centre of Sardinia where the art of the knife, especially the folding pocketknife, has been handed down from father to son over generations, you need to get to the heart of the matter and visit his studio...

Some can be reached by land, along half-hidden paths leading through the scents of the Mediterranean scrub. Others are scattered around islands and islets and even in summer are havens of total silence...