Cala Corsara

Cala Corsara

We are on the southern coast of the island of Spargi, accessible only by sea, where high slopes adorn what we can call the largest bay of this island, Cala Corsara, named the most beautiful beach in Italy in 2016 in the ranking of a famous holiday site and included in 2018, by the American magazine Forbes, among the seven beaches to visit in Italy. Fine sand, turquoise water and granite rock immersed in vast expanses of posedonia that sometimes leave room for the white color of pearl sand. Almost at the center as to divide this splendor with symmetry, rises a very particular rock that, overwhelmed by the sun at some times of the day, with a play of shadows studied by mother nature, takes the form of a dog Bulldog.

It is right to give you a few pills of curiosity about this bay that has had its importance in the history of these places.

Inhabited already in the Neolithic, it takes its name from the dangerous pirates, who for centuries terrorized the Sardinian populations and chose it as a safe shelter. In the waters in front of the beach was found the wreck of Spargi, or a Roman cargo ship of 35 meters of the second century B.C. with over 300 amphorae, which testify to the great maritime traffic in these waters already in ancient times. Part of the cargo is on display at the Nino Lamboglia naval archaeological museum in La Maddalena.

Cala Corsara was occupied by a military post – the Zavagli battery. It included the remains of the fortifications next to the beach and the barracks behind the beach, recently restored by the National Park of the archipelago of La Maddalena.