But after booking accommodations in Costa Smeralda and plugging Cagliari — Sardinia’s capital city — into Google Maps, I realized that three hours each way of navigating notoriously winding ...

Costa Smeralda is where the jet set land when they arrive in Sardinia. The 35 miles that stretch out over the Emerald Coast are some of the most beautiful in Sardinia – even arguably in the ...

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In the 1960s, the late Prince Karim Aga Khan IV bought the Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) in northeastern Sardinia, subsequently turning the area into a hot spot for royalty and celebrities.

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This is the property with the highest real estate value on the Costa Smeralda, second in value in all of Sardinia after the famous Villa Certosa where Silvio Berlusconi and his family spent their ...