Hostel Marina is a great youth hostel located in the heart of the city center of Cagliari. Completely refurbished in 2009 is located next to the bus/train station, just 10 minutes far from the Airport. Officially affiliated with the Hostelling International network.

Book at the Holiday Inn Cagliari to be a short drive from Cagliari-Elmas Airport and the city center (4 km). We're close to the island's main roads, the SS131 and SS554, giving you easy access to paradisiacal beaches and quaint towns.

Vibrant contemporary paintings brighten Holiday Inn Cagliari's stylish Lobby, where you can check emails with wireless Internet. Refresh with a swim in our outdoor pool and settle into your homely Guest room with satellite TV.

We're a good base for early and late flights, just 4km from Cagliari-Elmas Airport, and close to Sardina's key SS131 and SS554 motorways. Invite up to 350 people to an event in Holiday Inn Cagliari's 8 air-conditioned meeting rooms.

Our friendly staff can help set up high-tech conference quipment and arrange refreshments in our sunny break-out spaces. In downtown Cagliari, 4km away, eye up the catch of the day in bustling San Benedetto fish market and hear tales of gladiator duels on a tour of the limestone Roman Amphitheatre. White sandy beaches invite relaxation at Poetto, 8km from Holiday Inn Cagliari.

The hotel's American-style Le Saline cocktail bar serves drinks until late in sleek surroundings, and you can dine on flavoursome Mediterranean cuisine on tables set with crisp white linen in Vecchia Darsena Restaurant. Keep fit in our MiniGym and unwind with an indulgent sauna and steam bath.

The Viper's Cave is a funerary hypogeum located in Viale Sant'Avendrace. It was built by the Roman Lucio Cassio Filippo in honour of his wife, Atilia Pomptilla, between the second half of the first century AD and the first half of the second century AD. The presence of two snakes carved on the pediment, which has had various interpretations by scholars, gave the name to the site: among the various interpretations, they would represent the divine figures of Iside and Osiride, according to others they would represent Lucio Cassio Filippo and Atilia Pomptilla and their conjugal devotion; some scholars, finally, find an analogy with the myth of Cadmo and Armonia. The tomb is decorated on the outside by a facade with two columns (of which one capital is still visible) and it has two burial chambers. On the atrium's walls there is the engraving, now barely legible, of the Latin and Greek metric inscriptions, through which it is possible to recreate the story of the two spouses exiled to Sardinia, according to which Atilia offered his own life to the gods in exchange to that of her beloved husband, who was suffering from a serious illness. The scholar Alberto Della Marmora, during the construction of the Royal Road Cagliari-Porto Torres, in 1822, prevented the destruction of this monument (you can still see the holes in the rock wall for the mines, which remained unused ).

The general, in his “Itinerario dell’isola di Sardegna”, wrote about this monument:
“This tomb ( the Viper's Cave ) is no longer in its original state of integrity, because for a long time it had been digging around, to extract from the rock the cut stone, which here is of good quality. I can say, without boasting too much, that in 1822, I stopped the destructive hand of the works supervisors. They had already wiped off a grave nearby and they would have done the same with the other, if I did not make intervene the authority of the viceroy to prevent the complete destruction.“

(A. Della Marmora , Itinéraire de l'Ile de Sardaigne, Torino 1860).

Thanks to this prompt intervention, nowadays the access to the Viper's Cave is open to the public, who can visit the tomb accessing from the outside courtyard .

Along with the sculptures, at the headquarters of the Region in Roma street there also are a series of graffiti depicting landscapes of rural setting typical of Sardinia created by Nivola on the basis of a project by the artist Salvatore Fancello.

Enjoy your summer in relax. Seven resorts from the first bus stop to terminal of Poetto beach.

The Coop. Golfo degli Angeli operates seven resorts along Poetto beach.

Rental umbrellas, sunbeds, longchairs and beach chairs.

Rental kayak, pedalò, SUP.

Special price for senior and disabled people.

Accessibility to adapted structure for disabled with "Sedia Job".

The garden of Is Mirrionis, called "Mariposa" a kind of butterfly, consists of about 600 square meters between Barigadu street and Gippi street. It is a green area inaugurated in 2014 and designed especially for children. There is a play zone with climbing tools and a picnic area.

A stroll-garden, which starts from the lift that leads to the Bastion of Saint Remy to APCOA Parkings in Viale Regina Elena: a new space under the walls of Castello, abandoned for decades, closed to the public for a while because of restoration, and now returned to the city.

The area, once occupied by the former municipal nursery, has been inaugurated Friday, 28 th March 2014 with a large influx of Public.

The garden is about five hundred meters long, stretched for 6500 square meters. It is composed by two very suggestive routes on two height levels, linked together by a beautiful vaulted staircase, also restored, and soon they will be also connected by the intermediate stop of the lift, which will allow the intermediate access between the Terrace of Santa Caterina and Viale Regina.

The "Fratelli Giuseppe e Vittorino Fiori" Garden has been embellished by the precious recovery work of the futuristic style of Ubaldo Badas, together with sculptures of the Sardinian artist Pinuccio Sciola.

In the promenade, infact, the Hemicycle Theatre, designed by Ubaldo Badas, has been restored safeguarding the railing and the transformer kiosk.

Seven works of Sciola have been installed: in front of the main entrance an architectural sculpture; in the proximity of the Open Theatre a modern basalt stele; on the lawns three stone seeds and some tied stones. Finally, in the marble basins, there are three installations in limestone: the first is inspired by the submerged city, in memory of the Holy Santa Igia on the shores of Santa Gilla, the second is a tribute to Castello, the perched city . Finally, in the third basin, the pyramidal sculptures recall the salt works, one of the characteristic traits of Cagliari: the city of salt.

The massive restoration works have allowed to the "Fratelli Giuseppe e Vittorino Fiori" Garden to be fully wheelchair accessible and soon will be even inaugurated a dining area inside.

Recovered from neglect, the urban area facing the recreation centre ExMè has been turned into a garden with a small playground and a football pitch for kids.