Sardinia, Stintino - Asinara Island Naturalistic and Marine park

Asinara is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Sardinian Sea to the west, the Corsican Sea to the north and the homonymous gulf to the east; to the south it is separated from the small Isola Piana by a narrow navigable canal, the so-called Passage of the Fornelli. It is part of the municipality of Porto Torres, in the province of Sassari. It has an area of ​​50.9 km². The last civilian residents, prior to the establishment of the penal colony, left the island in 1885; some moved to the area where today stands the town of Stintino (autonomous municipality since 1988, until then a fraction of Sassari), built by themselves, located on the promontory of Capo Falcone. Morphologically it is mountainous, with high and jagged coasts, between which beaches and vegetation characterized by the Mediterranean scrub are interspersed, scarcely wooded due to human activity and the lack of waterways or lakes. The access to the homonymous National Park of Asinara is free, with the visit services carried out by operators authorized by the Park itself.