Pagan Festivals of Sardinia

Highlights

• Attend Sardinia's wildly colorful cultural festivals, with dancing, music, parades, and costumed participants
• Enjoy hikes leading to archaeological sites, including Tharros, dating from 800 BC, and Tomba di Giganti S’Ena è Thomes, a burial from the Bronze Age
• Meet cheesemakers, artisans, learn culinary secrets, taste robust wines

What's this trip about?

Take a step back in time for a wild cultural experience! Join veteran WT Trip Leaders Stefano Baldi and Sebastiano Leone for a fascinating discovery of the captivating pagan festivals of Sardinia, wild spectacles that hold true to their Sardo roots, with 2,000-year-old rituals, allegorical reenactments, colorful parades, masked dancers, lively music, and spirited horse races. This is a chance to experience the real Sardinia—the deep “dark heart” of the interior, where few tourists venture, and where the locals proudly keep the oldest traditions. In the company of Stefano, whose irrepressible, exuberant nature is well known and loved by all who travel with him, we can’t help but get caught up in the action! Along with the festivals, we visit artisans in their workshops, learn the culinary secrets of making good pasta, see how the special bread—pane carasau—is made, and enjoy a wine tasting as we visit one of the most renowned wineries on the island.

What's excluded

• International airfare
• Transfers for independent arrival or departure
• Airport departure taxes
• Optional tipping or gratuities to leaders or staff
• Additional hotel nights that may be necessitated by airline schedule changes or other factors
• Expenses such as medical immunizations (if any), travel insurance, or passports and visas, and other expenses of a personal nature (alcoholic beverages, laundry, etc.).

Accommodation