In Lungoni for the Christmas holidays
Spending all of the Christmas holidays or taking part in some of the events in the program organized for the Christmas holidays in Santa Teresa Gallura is not a bad idea, if you want to get to know Northern Sardinia but also if you want to visit Corsica. The territory is the northernmost one of the island of Sardinia and it is therefore located a few nautical miles away from the French island. The port, which has some importance since Roman times, has the name by which the town was once called: Longone; it is currently a small but modern maritime station where ferries to and from Bonifacio operate.
Maritime connections with Corsica
From 1 November to 15 December 2022, due to maintenance work in the Lungonese port, the connections on this section were temporarily transferred to the port of Palau.
The Santa Teresa Gallura – Bonifacio route will be active again from mid-December 2022 (precisely from Tuesday 20 December) and departures and arrivals will be carried out regularly; the ferry takes fifty minutes to travel it, either way or back. There will be four pairs of races per day, one more than in previous years.
To Santa Teresa Gallura from the Italian peninsula by ship
To reach Santa Teresa Gallura from the Italian peninsula, you can take a ferry to Olbia and continue by car or bus along the approximately 62 kilometers of road that you have to travel. Every day, and also in winter, there are ferries on the Livorno – Olbia route, whose journey time is between approximately seven hours and thirty minutes and nine hours for daytime crossings, and between eight hours and thirty minutes and ten hours for night rides. And the ferries on the Civitavecchia – Olbia route take, with daily departures, between five hours and thirty minutes and six hours during the day, and seven or eight hours at night.
At the links you can find out about departure times and prices; you can also enter the date, the number of passengers and a possible vehicle to obtain a more precise estimate; therefore, you can also enter any accompanying animals and, in the case of routes connecting the peninsula to Sardinia, choose the type of accommodation (deck passage is the default, but you can opt for an armchair or a cabin).
Once landed in the port of Olbia, by car you can take the SS 125 Orientale Sarda and then the SS 133 bis. For those traveling on foot, the ARST 601 bus connects Olbia (Isola Bianca port) to Santa Teresa Gallura, taking about two hours.
Christmas events in Santa Teresa Gallura
From Sunday 4 December 2022 a film review has been held in the Nelson Mandela Theater in Via Pertini. You can take a tour to admire the local crib art outdoors thanks to the exhibition “The cribs of the hamlets and villages of Lungoni“, created to enhance the inhabited centers outside the central nucleus of the municipality. Thanks to the competition “The most beautiful shop windows and installations” the shops are festively decorated. On Wednesday 7 December in the Grazia Deledda Library at 17:00 there is the “Let’s decorate the library” workshop, for children aged 4 to 10.
Thursday 8 December, on the occasion of the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Sweet Fair is scheduled in Piazza San Vittorio at 11:00, while in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele I at 13:00 there is a refreshment point; from 2.30 pm the square is enlivened by Cartoons, Baby Dance, the race of stuffed horses and a DJ set. Day 11 December at the Last Supper in Via Verdi at 14:30 begins “Young people celebrating“. On Monday 12th in the same location the reading workshop “The Lungoni duck” is scheduled. Sunday 18 December from 11:00 in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele I there is the Santa Claus Village with mascots, baby dance, DJ set and refreshment point. Thursday 22, in the morning Santa Claus meets the children of the “Magnon” school in the square, as part of the “Songs under the tree” event; at 21:00 in the Church of San Vittorio there is “In… Cantu di Natali”, a concert by the Santa Teresa Gallura Polyphonic Choir. On Christmas Eve at 19:30 you can listen to the Gospel Choir Concert “The Brooklyn Gospel Harmoniettes” in the Church of San Vittorio. Wednesday 28 is the turn of the “Magic Cartoon” event: at 15:00 the parade of mascots starts from Piazza Villamarina and at 15:30 in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele I a musical and a DJ set with refreshment point is staged.
On the evening of New Year’s Eve the celebrations begin in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele I at 19:00 with the music of the DJ set and the aperitif; from 11.00 pm there is the musical show of the “Adrenalina” group, followed by the countdown and the midnight toast; in the area of the Longonsardo Tower, from 00:15 the sky is illuminated by fireworks, while the music continues until late at night. For the Epiphany on Friday 6 January at 2.30 pm there is the “MotoBefana” in the square, with games, music and a refreshment point.
