Festivals to give your trip a spin!

There are many interesting festivals that take place yearly in Sardinia, but only a few rare food festivals. You will not want to miss the most colourful and gastronomical event of the year in Sardinia: The Porto Cervo food festival!

The Porto Cervo food festival is the largest and most attended food festival in Sardinia. Present in this festival are some of Sardinia's top chefs and their top ingredients, as well as local and national dishes. Both food lovers and business people come together for two whole days to take part in the tasting of Sardinia's foods, and meeting with chefs and producers of the food. Some other activities that go on are: Cooking Classes, show Cooking and gourmet dinners. As the title suggests, the food festival takes place in Porto Cervo, a seaside resort in northern Sardinia. Some of the delights that are offered at this festival include the following:

-Charcuterie
-Cheeses
-Jams
-Caviar
-Bottarga

This is one festival that you will not want to miss an opportunity to brag about.

Geography and Climate 101

If you're not sure whether Sardinia is worth traveling to, stop, and think about this: It's an island. Already you cannot go wrong with this region in Italy. Flanked by the sparkling Mediterranean and the Tyrrhenian sea, Sardinia is easily the second largest island in the area, and it governs independently from the rest of Italy.
Sardinia spans about 24 090 km², including it's offshore islands. Its largest city is Cagliari (which interestingly means "Castle" in Sardinia). Some other provinces in Sardinia include: Carbonia Iglesias, Medio Campidano, Nuoro, ogliastra, olbia Tempio, Oristano, and finally Sassari. But here's another fact that I'm sure will peak the attention of anyone: Sardinia is known to have beautiful, clear turquoise coastlines. Imagine standing on high and rocky cliffs overlooking white beaches. Sardinia's rocky coastline is due to tectonic and large volcanic activity during the Cenozoic era. But in general, the west and southwest coasts are not as rocky as the other sides. 

 Sardinia is well known for having a summer that spans six months (from May to October). Although there still exists a mild wind that blows from the northwest. Sardinia's climate is greatly affected by its location in the Mediterranean. Wind masses from the Atlantic, Arctic and Africa also have an affect on Sardinian climate. Although it is known to be very warm during the summer, it also can get very cold, usually higher above land, on the mountains. Locals can even see, when weathers go below zero, white caps on Gennargentu (the main mountain of Sardinia).  

Overall, the weather is not to hot or too cold; there's a little something to fit everyone's needs.