Porto Pino is located in the territory of Sant’Anna Arresi, in southwest Sardinia, along the Sulcis coast, adorned, to the east, by the homonymous promontory covered in oaks, ancient juniper trees and very rare Aleppo pines and, on the other side, dominated by Mediterranean scrub. In an area characterized by little coves with pink sand and crystalline waters, long, white, deserted beaches, rocks with breath-taking seabed, ponds inhabited by flamingos, and, inside, groves, vineyards, grottos.
The Porto Pino beach is about 4km long, divided in two parts by an old sea outlet for the ponds. One part features greyish sand, while the other, nestled between lagoon and pine grove, has white sand. A canal crosses the strip of sand and the pine grove in the part of the beach belonging to Sant’Anna Arresi, and connects sea and the lagoon area, consisting of the Maestrale, Porto Pino, Corvo, Is Brebeis and Foxi lagoons.
Nearby, within the same territory, in the locality of Porto Pinetto, is the spiaggia dei Francesi (Frenchmen’s Beach), a half-moon of fine white sand with shells and coral fragments that dives into the sea in shallow waters that change from emerald green to turquoise and azure.
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