San Teodoro

San Teodoro is a village situated on the north-eastern coast of Sardinia. Its coast is about 37 Km long and it is considered as one of the most beautiful and interesting ones all over the island, thanks to the presence of fabulous landscapes and an enchanting sea.

The Comune of San Teodoro borders on other different Communes: on the north-west with Loiri - Porto San Paolo, on the west with Padru, on the south with Budoni and on the north-east with Olbia. Its area is not particularly wide, about 104 Kmq large, and has a resident population of about 3.500 inhabitants, except all the tourists that visit this place during the summer.

Anyway, lately a great number of visitors are coming to San Teodoro also in the spring, an ideal period for people who want to spend some relaxing and peaceful holidays inside nature.

The village consists of a few houses, all gathered around the pictoresque San Teodoro Parish Church and in front of Gallura Square, a summer meeting place for thousands of tourists. Around the village and the country there are lots of villas, restaurants, hotels, campsites and tourist villages, as well. The houses are one or two-storied nice buildings in dressed stone, with tile covering and coloured small gardens in front of them.

The landscape around the village is various, predominantly hilly and mountain, and only Lu Calcinosu small plain take up the south-eastern area with its homonymous river. The mountains are nothing but some high hills that surround the territory from north-east to south-east, except the brief flat land near the village.

The Moltinierddu granite massif is the only one real mountain of the area, whose top, called Punta Magghiori, is 974 m. high. Once, around the mountain there used to be very thick impassable woods of holm-oaks, junipers and yews.

But at the end of the XIX century, a large number of Sardinian and Tuscan woodsmen razed a relevant part of the forests themselves, using the wood to manufacture different kind of furniture.

As far as the rivers, the Rio San Teodoro or Rio Badualga is the only one in the territory. It is rather a stream, particularly dry in the summer and full of water in the winter, that flows along the valley from the Moltinieddu massif to the San Teodoro’s pond.

You should visit the river to admire the wonderful interesting view aruond it. Although it is not very long, it is the tenth longest river in Sardinia and is full of different species of mullets and some eels.

Also the ponds and the lagunes of the area are particularly interesting: from the north to the south it is possible to admire the Cala Ghjlgolu, Lu Stagnittu, Cadranzolu, and L’Isuledda ponds and the San Teodoro’s lagune, all very beautiful and suggestive.