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Sardinian Shores
Spiaggia Scivu, Costa Verde
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11 The English language fails to accurately describe the varied blue, green and, in the
deepest shadows, purple hues of Sardinia's seas. While models, ministers and permatanned
celebrities wine, dine and sail along the glossy Costa Smeralda, much of Sardinia ( Click
here ) remains a wild, raw playground. Slather on that sunscreen and explore the island's
rugged coastal beauty, from the tumbledown boulders of Santa Teresa di Gallura and the
wind-chiselled cliff face of the Golfo di Orosei, to the windswept beauty of the Costa
Verde's dune-backed beaches.