The San Teodoro area is an integral part of the Marine Park of Tavolara - Capo Coda Cavallo. In fact, the park spreads from Capo Ceraso, in the south of Olbia, to the Punta Isuledda, in the south of San Teodoro.
Along the San Teodoro it is possible to admire wonderful landscapes, very wide beaches with white sand, solitary coves and imposing promontories looking out on the sea. Exactly to the eastern side of San Teodoro village you can reach the very beautiful and famous Cala d’Ambra, placed at the base of Lu Casteddu hill.
It is a small beach, frequented above all by the tourists who want to find a nice peaceful place. Near the beach there are numerous hotels, restaurants and spots where you can spend some thoughtless evenings.
If you run across the provincial street to Porto Ottiolu, southwards, you will reach the nice Isuledda, an amazing beach with white thin sand and a green-azure water, placed near a very small pond. A marvellous green cortin and a big sheer surround the beach, sheltering it from the waves and the impetuous winds that very often blow during the year.
The Marine Park of Tavolara - Capo Coda Cavallo ends quite near the Isuledda promontory. It is not difficult to reach the beach: in fact, it is necessary to run across a dirt road surrounded by a thick Mediterranean bush that starts from the promontory and ends to the sea-shore. A little to the south of the Isuledda there are the wonderful Li Marini and Segafusti beaches, very closed to Porto Ottiolu. In short, the coast is very rich in coves and promontories with solitary cosy beaches, where you can find relax and peacefulness far from the crowd, all gathered in the largest beaches.
To the north of San Teodoro village, another suggestive road flanked with villas and hotels takes to the fantastic La Cinta beach, the most frequented one by tourists. You can reach it running through Via del Tirreno and Via Gramsci, two of the most important roads of the village. When you arrive at the beach, about 5 Km long, you can admire its thin white sand and the thick forests of junipers, lentisks, rosemaries and savins that surround and separate it from the lagune waters.
The water is transparent and ideal to have a swim and to play nice water sports. Besides, La Cinta offers some interesting environmental spectacles to people who like having nice walks: from the lagune shore that connects with the sea it is possible to admire the different kind of birds which live in the pond, as flamingoes, cormorans, sea-gulls, ducks and herons. La Cinta beach spreads northwards until the Punta Aldia coast and Lu Impostu, another interesting beach.
The road that leads to Punta Aldia, about 1,5 km long, is asphalted and it is placed near Lu Fraili suburb. The Lu Impostu marine looks out on a marvellous view with the amazing Tavolara island in the background. On the left side of the road you can see the Brandinchi pond, also well-known as Catranzolu.The Lu Impostu marine waters are particularly limpid and coloured and for this reason all tourists and inhabitants adore them.
The houses of the near small village were built in the ’60s and some of them belong to very important TV stars. If you go straight on, you can reach the Punta Aldia village and tourist harbour, surely one of the most suggestive tourist resorts of the area around San Teodoro.
In the village there are numerous hotels, campsites, sports fields, swimming pools and a wonderful golf course, particularly attended by famous people. Also its harbour is equipped: in fact, it meets all the rich customers’ requirements and takes in numerous luxurious yachts coming from all over the world.
From the harbour itself it is possible to admire a fantastic landscape on the near Tavolara and Molara islands.
Northwards, it is possible to visit also the beautiful Brandinchi beach, placed between the Punta Sabatino and Capo Codacavallo, well-repaired by the winds. From this beach, on october 17th 1867, Giuseppe Garibaldi, after escaping from Caprera, embarked for Piombino to free Rome.
Amongst the most interesting coastal areas, you should also visit the marvellous Capo Codacavallo promontory, surely one of the most beautiful places in the island. It is about 8 Km far from San Teodoro and you can reach it running across the State Street 125 (S.S.125) towards the Lutturai resort.
After some kilometres, on your right, you should enter a small asphalted road, about 4 km long, that takes to the top of the promontory. The promontory itself abounds in quite large coves, it looks out on the sea and dominates the coast from Capo Figari, in the north, to Capo Comino, in the south.
The small peninsula consists of a wide extension of green hills with pinewoods and a thick Mediterranean bush that spread until its extreme point. This one is well known as Coda di Lu Forru (in the shape of a horse tail), and it is placed in front of a wonderful view of the Molara island.
In the northern part of the territory around San Teodoro it is also possible to see the wide Monte Pedrosu promontory, 48 m. high and surrounded by some tourist villages. From the base of its northern side you can admire the wonderful Cala Ghjlgolu, a beach with transparent water and golden sand. It looks out on a view of Tavolara and is surrounded by beautiful Mediterranean style villas built among granite rocks and a thick bush.
Near the cove, you can visit the small Ghjlgolu pond, the natural environment where herons, ducks and cormorans live. The cove is not only an appreciated tourist resort, but above all a very interesting environmental area that abounds in gorges, cliffs that look out on the sea and imposing pink granite rocks of the Paleozoic Era. If you have a walk, southwards, you can reach a solitary small cove where it is possible to admire the very famous Turtle’s rock, so called for its particular shape of a turtle and today a natural monument.
Unfortunately, lately some silly disrespectful vandals have damaged the rock, cutting its head and depriving it of its original appearance. Anyway, if you go a little straight on, you will meet another zoomorphic big rock looking like a cock and well-known as Gallo di Gallura.