The Costa Verde (Green Coast) is a coastline located in the south west of

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

, in the Province of

South Sardinia The Province of South Sardinia ( it, provincia del Sud Sardegna; sc, provìntzia de Sud Sardigna) is an Italian province of Sardinia instituted on 4 February 2016. It includes the suppressed provinces of Carbonia-Iglesias and Medio Campidano, ...

. It extends for 47 km from Capo Frasca, in the north, to Capo Pecora and Portixeddu, in the south. The toponym was initially the commercial name of the first specifically tourist settlement built in the mid-twentieth century, in the area of ''Portu Maga'', but nowadays by extension it is used to indicate the whole coast belonging to the municipality of Arbus SardegnaArbusScivu001

Geography

Places

Particularly notable beaches, following the coast from north to south, include: * Capo Frasca * Pistis * Torre dei Corsari * Porto Palma * Babari * Funtanazza * Gutturu e' Flumini * Portu Maga, * Piscinas * Scivu * Capo Pecora

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Footnotes

Bibliography

* Angei, Luca, ''Arbus tra storia e leggenda. Usanze e vita di un popolo'', Cesmet, Napoli, 1995 * Caddeo, Antonello, ''Arbus. Immagini e ricordi dal passato'', Editar, Cagliari, 1994 * Concas, Luciano, ''Arbus, coste incantate e fondali da sogno'', Garau, Guspini 2007 * Concas, Luciano, ''Arbus, le sue coste e i suoi fondali'', Garau, Guspini 2003 * Mostallino Murgia, ''Costa Verde. Da Capo Frasca a Cala Domestica. La costa e l'interno'', Zonza, Cagliari, 2005

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