Le Bombarde, a jewel among the volcanic rocks

The Riviera del Corallo beach

The pinewood characteristic of the Mediterranean and the volcanic rocks surround the Bombarde beach, situated in the homonimous locality of the town of Alghero or S'Alighera (place of seaweed), Sardinian name resulting from the accumulation of posidonia along the coast, performance on the back of the currents of the sea. The posidonia bed, endemic throughout the Mediterranean basin, is considered a good indicator of the quality of marine waters. 

Le Bombarde - Photo by M. Melis - http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/
Le Bombarde - Photo by M. Melis - http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/

The beach stretches along the coastline of the Riviera del Corallo, having as capital city Barceloneta or "Little Barcelona", vernacular name of the city of Alghero that retains the use of the Catalan language and characterized by the huge amount of red coral catched by coral divers. The landscape that frames the beach is adorned with reddish volcanic rocks in the southern part, where space takes the dense vegetation of the surrounding pinewood, point of shelter during the hottest hours of the day, equipped with various plant species including pine, eucalyptus and the Mediterranean scrub.

 

In the north, however, there are hotels and resorts. The white crescent of thin sand bathed by an expanse of bright blue water, with a sea bottoms that attracts and encourages the bathing of children, even more attracted by the water park.

Le Bombarde - Photo Aeronike - http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/
Le Bombarde - Photo Aeronike - http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/

Le Bombarde, is one of the beaches in north-western Sardinia most known and frequented by locals and tourists, where you can spend holidays between the smell of salt and flora that only Sardinian coast may give, in a communion of fun guaranteed by the possibility of equipping for camping, activity authorized on the coast.

01 June 2015

Veronica Pastore
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