Overview
On the east coast of the province of Nuoro, overlooking the Gulf of Orosei, there is a small pearl, the town of Siniscola, which carefully guards a jewel at its eastern end: the beach of Capo Comino. Rising to fame in the 1970s as the setting for Lina Wertmüller's film Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August and, more recently, Guy Ritchie's Swept Away, this wide white sandy beach with high dunes will allow you to relax amidst Mediterranean scrub and large junipers.
To the right of the beach, one can reach, either on foot or by swimming, a small red porphyry island called, precisely, Isola Rossa, in front of which there is an old lighthouse. With its crystal-clear waters and shallow, sandy seabed, Cape Comino is a favourite destination for divers also due to the presence of wrecks, including a Roman ship from the age of Nero and a small French fighter plane that crashed in 1963.
Capo Comino, 08029 Siniscola NU, Italia
