7 days in Santa Teresa Gallura – what shouldn’t we miss? 🇮🇹🏖️
Hi everyone!
My wife, our 8-month-old daughter and I will be spending 7 days in Santa Teresa Gallura in early September. We’ll have a rental car and are really looking forward to exploring the area, but also don’t want to turn the trip into a checklist and spend every day driving around.
What we’re mainly looking for:
- Beautiful beaches –> Rena Bianca is obviously on our list, but we’d love to hear about your favorite beaches/bays within around 30–45 minutes by car. Especially places that are beautiful but maybe not the first thing you find on Google.
- Food –> Great pizza is very important to us, but also pasta, gelato, bakeries etc. We’d much rather eat somewhere simple and genuinely good than somewhere fancy. Our highest prio are probably pizza and gelato
- Agriturismo –> We’d love to do one traditional agriturismo dinner or lunch. Any favorites around Santa Teresa?
- A short boat trip –> La Maddalena/Archipelago looks incredible. Since we’re traveling with a baby, we’re thinking more along the lines of a relaxed half-day/small boat trip rather than being on a crowded boat for 8 hours. Any recommendations?
- Little trips, villages and viewpoints –> Places worth visiting for a few hours, maybe combined with lunch or dinner. We even thinking about a ferry trip to f.e. Bonifacio but are not too sure if it's worth.
- Your personal hidden gems –> Tiny restaurant, bakery, sunset spot, farm shop or whatever you personally love in the area.
We’ll be based in Santa Teresa for the entire week and are completely fine driving 30–45 minutes for something that’s really worth it.
At the moment, we could imagine spending around 3 days just enjoying Santa Teresa itself, especially Rena Bianca, and trying some of the local pizza and gelato spots (recommendations very welcome!). Maybe one day exploring La Maddalena.. probably taking the car on the ferry, although we’re wondering whether leaving the car in Palau (or even in Santa Teresa) and using buses on the island might actually be the better option. Another day could be a different beautiful beach combined with an agriturismo in the evening. We’re even wondering whether a day trip all the way to Alghero would be worth the 2–3 hour drive each way with a baby. We’re still pretty undecided about the whole week.
Originally, we had planned to stay in San Teodoro for all 7 days, but because there’s a festival happening there at the same time, we decided to choose a different town in the hope of having a slightly quieter and more relaxed base.
If you had 7 days in Santa Teresa Gallura, what would you absolutely eat, see or do, and what would you skip? Or should we even reconsider our plans altogether and stay somewhere else on the island instead?
Grazie! :)
