Banana trees, lemon trees, lavender, pines, palm trees, bougainvillea… The 50 hectares of vegetation in the Forte Village make you forget the 650 rooms that the 8 hotels total, all different, barely visible here and there through the foliage. The real luxury here? Space ! Not to mention the 21 restaurants, the incredible miniature village of the Cité des Enfants, the many sports academies (football, cycling, tennis, basketball, etc.). Named World's Leading Resort, the Forte Village lives up to its reputation!
The Acquaforte Spa at the Forte Village offers a course unique in the world, with 6 open-air seawater pools, at varying temperatures and saline concentrations, in which you dive successively. You have to dare to put your foot in the first, which looks like it is filled with frying oil (in fact, a marine oil with a high magnesium density), because the experience is worth it. Ten times saltier than the Dead Sea, at 39°, it completely relaxes the muscles and relieves the joints. We float, better, we have the impression of being weightless. Astronauts also come to perk up here after long months in space. Floating in the pool, eyes to the sky, listening to birdsong, we're pretty much in the moon!
You arrive in the most populated city of Sardinia by crossing ponds teeming with pink flamingos. Phoenicians, Greeks, Arabs, Spaniards… succeeded each other in the Sardinian capital. Stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Bonaria, patron saint of sailors, attached to a small older church where a mini ivory vessel suspended in the apse still mysteriously indicates the direction of the winds. After a traditional lunch (seafood soup, eggplant with pecorino, snails with tomato, etc.) at the Trattoria Gennargentu (via Sardegna, 60/c) with its typical rustic decor, we take the arcades of via Roma, where the shops have long since replaced the fishermen's houses, and we go up the Marina district through the alleys to the ramparts of the historic district of Castello. At the Antico Caffè (Piazza Costituzione 10/11), at the foot of the Saint-Rémy bastion, you can drink with a view of the port and the entire gulf.
