This captivating landscape is even more breathtaking at sunset, when the sun goes down behind a Spanish tower, highlighting the hints of pink in the sand and rocks. During the day, it treats the eye to a thousand different colours in the sea and among the pebbles on the beach. This is the vision offered by the beach of Vignola Mare, in the Aglientu area, which received the Blue Flag award for water quality, environmental protection and high-quality services.

Vignola Mare was originally a fishing village and is now a tourist resort that still has uncontaminated stretches, surrounded by granite cliffs and Mediterranean scrub. Its sandy shore is divided into two parts at the point where the Vignola rivulet forms a small lake, which has a low flow rate during the summer, near a granite rock. The largest part, in front of the village, stretches for over a kilometre and features golden sand, with hints of pink due to the granite grains and mixed with pebbles smoothed by the sea. The stretch beyond the lake is also called La Turra or ‘beach of the tower’. In fact, it lies at the foot of a promontory on which a 16th-century Spanish defence tower stands.