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A wild, sheer-walled limestone cove where a golden-white sand delta fans into blindingly clear turquoise shallows, Cala Sisine sits at the mouth of the untamed Codula di Sisine gorge on Sardinia’s Gulf of Orosei. Cradled by juniper-cloaked cliffs soaring up to 500 metres, this remote beach in the municipality of Baunei is reachable only by sea or by a demanding trek through the gorge itself, a fact that has preserved its raw, unspoiled character.

The water shifts from pale aquamarine at the shoreline to deep sapphire beyond the rocks, framed by dramatic karst walls that plunge straight into the Tyrrhenian Sea. There are no beach clubs, no sunbeds, no built structures here — only wind-sculpted stone, wild Mediterranean scrub, and the hush of a landscape shaped entirely by nature. Boats from Cala Gonone, Santa Maria Navarrese and Arbatax deliver visitors to this hidden shore, while hikers emerging from the Codula gorge find themselves rewarded with one of Sardinia’s most dramatic coastal panoramas — a fitting climax to the wild, untamed beauty of the Baunei coast.